[linux-audio-user] Linux and 1394 Audio chips (Re: Open Source Hardware)

Andreas Kuckartz A.Kuckartz at ping.de
Wed Dec 15 18:06:08 EST 2004


Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

> What I was thinking about was this:
> - 1394 chip (off the shelf, no programming)

RME has some interesting information on its page
"FireWire Audio by RME - Technical Background "
http://www.rme-audio.de/english/techinfo/firewire_background.htm
I quote one section below and have added some URLs. Maybe some of these
companies can be convinced to create or support Open Source Linux drivers? (A
task for the Linux Audio Consortium!)

BridgeCo: used by M-Audio, Terratec, ESI, Edirol, Presonus, Apogee, Tascam.
http://www.bridgeco.net/products/dm1000/dm1000.shtml
http://www.bridgeco.net/products/dm1000e/dm1000e.shtml
http://www.bridgeco.net/products/bebob/bebob.shtml

Philips AV LLC: used by Motu
Might be this one:
http://www.semiconductors.philips.com/pip/PDI1394L40.html

Upcoming: a new chip from Texas Instruments, co-developed or supported by Echo.
Will be used in upcoming Echo and Mackie FireWire devices.
?

Upcoming: a new chip from TC, called Dice II. A few years ago TC have bought a
company that produced non-audio FireWire chips. Now this chip, announced to be
available more than a year ago, is said to finally arrive. If so, it will be
used in upcoming TC FireWire audio interfaces for sure.
http://www.tctechnologies.tc/products.htm

Upcoming: a chip from Oxford Semiconductors called OXFW970. Seems that this is
the chip used in Apple's just announced 'GarageBand' FW interface. It is said to
be very cheap and might cause another flood of very cheap FW audio interfaces in
2005.
http://www.oxsemi.co.uk/download/standard/dsheets/oxfw970ds.pdf
http://www.oxsemi.co.uk/pages/webflyers/970webflyer.pdf
http://www.oxsemi.co.uk/pages/webflyers/970webflyer.pdf

Cheers,
Andreas




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