ZHCSHP8B December 2017 – January 2019 AMIC120
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The device includes two multichannel audio serial port (McASP) interface peripherals (McASP0 and McASP1). The McASP module consists of a transmit and receive section. These sections can operate completely independently with different data formats, separate master clocks, bit clocks, and frame syncs or, alternatively, the transmit and receive sections may be synchronized. The McASP module also includes shift registers that may be configured to operate as either transmit data or receive data.
The transmit section of the McASP can transmit data in either a time-division-multiplexed (TDM) synchronous serial format or in a DIT format where the bit stream is encoded for SPDIF, AES-3, IEC-60958, CP-430 transmission. The receive section of the McASP peripheral supports the TDM synchronous serial format.
The McASP module can support one transmit data format (either a TDM format or DIT format) and one receive format at a time. All transmit shift registers use the same format and all receive shift registers use the same format; however, the transmit and receive formats need not be the same. Both the transmit and receive sections of the McASP also support burst mode, which is useful for nonaudio data (for example, passing control information between two devices).
The McASP peripheral has additional capability for flexible clock generation and error detection/handling, as well as error management.
The device McASP0 and McASP1 modules have up to four serial data pins each. The McASP FIFO size is 256 bytes and two DMA and two interrupt requests are supported. Buffers are used transparently to better manage DMA, which can be leveraged to manage data flow more efficiently.
For more detailed information on and the functionality of the McASP peripheral, see the Multichannel Audio Serial Port (McASP) section of the AM437x and AMIC120 ARM Cortex-A9 Microprocessors (MPUs) Technical Reference Manual.