Automotive Audio Bus A2B Transceiver
Data Sheet AD2421W/AD2422W/AD2425W
A2B BUS FEATURES GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Line topology The Automotive Audio Bus (A2B®) provides a multichannel,
Single master, multiple slave I2S/TDM link over distances of up to 15 m between nodes. It
Up to 15 m between nodes and up to 40 m overall cable embeds bidirectional synchronous data (for example digital
length audio), clock, and synchronization signals onto a single differ-
Communication over distance ential wire pair. A2B supports a direct point to point connection
Synchronous data and allows multiple, daisy-chained nodes at different locations
Multichannel I2S/TDM to I2S/TDM to contribute or consume time division multiplexed channel
Clock synchronous, phase aligned in all nodes
content. A2B is a single-master, multiple-slave system where the
transceiver chip at the host controller is the master. The master
Low latency slave to slave communication
generates clock, synchronization, and framing for all slave nodes.
Control and status information I2C to I2C The master A2B chip is programmable over a control bus (I2C)
GPIO over distance for configuration and read back. An extension of this control
Phantom power or local power slave nodes bus is embedded in the A2B data stream, which grants direct
Configurable with SigmaStudio graphical software tool access of registers and status information on slave transceivers
Qualified for automotive applications as well as I2C to I2C communication over distance.
ADDITIONAL TRANSCEIVER FEATURES
Table 1. Product Comparison Guide
Configurable as A2B bus master or slave (AD2425W)
I2C interface Feature AD2421W AD2422W AD2425W
8-bit to 32-bit multichannel I2S/TDM interface Master capable No No Yes
I2S/TDM/PDM programmable data rate Functional TRX blocks A only A+B A+B
Up to 32 upstream and 32 downstream channels I2S/TDM support No No Yes
PDM inputs for 4 high dynamic range microphones PDM microphone inputs 4 mics 4 mics 4 mics
APPLICATIONS Maximum node to node 15 m 15 m 15 m
Automotive audio communication link cable length
Active noise cancellation
Microphone arrays for hands free and in car communication
FUNCTIONAL BLOCK DIAGRAM
IOVDD DVDD PLLVDD VOUT1 VIN VOUT2 ATRXVDD/BTRXVDD
SCL A2B BP
SDA PLL VREG1 VREG2 TRX B BCM
IRQ/IO0 I2C (Towards
Last Slave) BN
ADR1/IO1/CLKOUT1
ADR2/IO2/CLKOUT2 SWP
® DIAGNOSTICS SENSE
BCLK
A2B AP
SYNC I2S/TDM TRX A ACM
DTX0/DTX1 PDM (Towards AN
DRX0/DRX1 Master)
IO7 VSS VSSN
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AD2421W/AD2422W/AD2425W Data Sheet
I2C refers to a communications protocol originally developed by Philips Semiconductors (now NXP Semiconductors).
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