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Engineering Brief

SoundWire: A New MIPI Standard Audio Interface

Authors: Bossart, Pierre-Louis; Backman, Juha; Poulsen, Jens Kristian

AES Convention 137 · Paper 172 · October 2014

Abstract

This paper presents the key features of the upcoming SoundWire hardware interface and protocol. SoundWire is a robust, scalable, low complexity, low power, low latency, two-pin (clock and data) multi-drop bus that allows for the transfer of multiple audio streams and embedded control/commands. SoundWire provides synchronization capabilities and supports both PCM and PDM, multichannel data, isochronous and asynchronous modes. The development of this interface has generated a lot of interest and contributions from providers of audio peripherals (microphones, amplifiers & audio codecs), silicon vendors and OEMs. It will become a ratified standard by MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface consortium) at the end of 2014. The first products should appear in 2015 and enable new usage models or design choices for audio applications.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 137
AES Convention
137
Paper number
172
Publication date
October 6, 2014
Affiliation
Intel Corporation, Austin, TX; Microsoft, Espoo, Finland; BlackBerry (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Engineering Brief