[LAU] open hw soundcard (was Re: status usb2 for sound)

[fons at kokkinizita.net]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 07:56:13PM +0000, Folderol wrote:

> The effect you can get with a system with poor stability but very strong
> locking when incoming pulses are half way between the wanted times
> (used to happen a lot with early discrete PLLs). The system will
> alternately lock on the early and late pulses. The correction waveform
> looks like a cog railway :)

- To generate a clock that is good enough for audio sampling you'll 
  need a analog PLL based on an Xtal oscillator, and with less than
  1ns (nanosecond) jitter in the audio BW, and preferably even less.

- All AD converters require a clock that is much higher than
  the sample frequency. For example the TI ADS1278 requires 
  27 or 37 MHz. 

- If you want the soundcard to lock to a reference provided by
  the master (PC), all you have is the timing of Ethernet 
  messages. For example the PC could send a message every
  millisecond. With the above clock frequencies that would
  mean a PLL multiplier with a ratio of 27000:1, somewhat
  more than the 1:1 you seem to assume. It would need a BW
  of a fraction of a second. Can be done, but not simple.

Ciao,

-- 
FA

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