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- From: philg@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Philip Greenspun)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: AES/EBU
- Message-ID: <PHILG.92Sep6180021@zug.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 22:00:21 GMT
- References: <23632@alice.att.com> <5515@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
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- Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
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- In-reply-to: ebe+@pitt.edu's message of 5 Sep 92 14:35:34 GMT
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- In article <5515@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> ebe+@pitt.edu (Elmer Beachley) writes:
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- Thanks for posting the AES/EBU and SPDIF info. I'm particularly interested
- as I'm building a SPDIF optical to coaxial converter to interface to an
- Audiomedia II soundcard.
-
- I've got the Toslink (optical) receiver working and am sending a 1v p-p,
- low = 0v, high= 1v to the soundcard which it seems to ignore. Now, my
- "specs" on SPDIF are derived from net messages :-) so I'm wondering what
- might be going wrong.
-
- Specifically, does SPDIF need to see +0.5v (high) and -0.5v (low)? Does
- it matter if the levels are greater than .5v, say +/- 5v? I'm thinking
- maybe of using an RS422 driver feed off the Toslink receiver if I need
- both postivie and negative voltage swings.
-
- I believe that SPDIF is 0.5V PEAK TO PEAK, thus 0.5V high and 0V low
- (of course, since it is Manchester coded, polarity makes no
- difference).
-
- If you are sending a 1v p-p signal and your driver has a 75 ohm output
- impedance, the 75 ohm termination of an SPDIF receiver should result
- in a 0.5V p-p signal on the line.
-
- You problem could be that your output impedance is too low.
-
- Philip Greenspun
- MIT
-