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Introducing the Automotive Audio Bus

Authors: Kessler, Martin

AES Conference: 2017 AES International Conference on Automotive Audio · Paper P5-2 · August 2017

Abstract

A2B is a de-facto digital audio communication standard developed to introduce digital microphones to the car. Multiple microphone arrays can be connected to the same, daisy chained cable which carries both digital microphone signals (up to 32 channels) and phantom power. The bi-directional digital audio bus system is also found in head unit to amplifier connections. This paper explains the capabilities of A2B and how it works. It illustrates how the low latency A2B bus enables new applications like in-car communication and noise cancellation. The paper will also demonstrate how easy it is to use the A2B bus to bi-directionally transmit synchronous audio data (I2S/TDM-to-I2S/TDM) and control/status information (I2C-to-I2C) over multiple bus-nodes.

Details

Published in
AES Conference: 2017 AES International Conference on Automotive Audio
Paper number
P5-2
Publication date
August 6, 2017
Affiliation
Analog Devices, Wilmington, MA, USA (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Conference Paper