Audinate recently announced the availability of Dante IP Core, a soft IP solution for audio manufacturers. Dante IP Core “allows OEMs working with field programmable gate array [FPGA]-based designs to add Dante audio connectivity to AV products at a lower cost and with greater flexibility than ever before,” according to a company press release. [related]
“Development teams can save time, reduce BOM costs and minimize their internal footprint by using a single FPGA to implement both product applications and Dante audio networking,” according to the announcement.
“Dante IP Core efficiently runs alongside OEM product applications such as ASRC, audio encryption, and signal processing on a range of Xilinx FPGAs, providing channel counts up to 512×512 with ultra-low latency and sub-microsecond synchronization.”
Dante IP Core “reduces the marginal costs of incorporating Dante in FPGA-based products, offering OEMs greater flexibility in aligning product families,” according to the press release.
“Dante IP Core runs on the widely-used Xilinx family of FPGAs and provides all the interfaces required to be a fully functional Dante endpoint, including SiLabs clock synthesis, serial and parallel audio, DDR2 and SRAM, and a variety of standard control interfaces, including UART, SPI and I2C.”
“Dante IP Core gives savvy manufacturers something they’ve been requesting for a long time,” says Chris Ware, senior VP of engineering at Audinate.
“By integrating Dante IP into FPGA-based product designs, they can save costs, reduce board space, and more easily manage thermal constraints while adding features their customers demand.”
Audinate is now a member of the Xilinx Alliance Program, a global community of vendors that offers IP cores, tools and support for system designers who are developing products using Xilinx FPGAs.
Dante IP Core is available for the Xilinx Spartan 6 family of FPGAs. Support for the Artix 7 FPGA is expected in the first quarter of 2018.
