ADAT - Replacing Wavefront AL1401/402 with xCORE

This application note describes the ADAT light-pipe protocol and an XMOS-based replacement for the Wavefront AL1401 ADAT encoder and AL1402 ADAT decoder IC’s, both of which are End-of-Life products.

Prerequisites

This document assumes familiarity with the XMOS xCORE architecture [1] and the ADAT protocol [2]. Documentation related to these aspects which are not specific to this application note are linked to in the references appendix.

For descriptions of XMOS related terms found in this document please see the XMOS Glossary [3].

[1]	http://www.xmos.com/published/xcore-architecture

[2]	http://ackspace.nl/wiki/ADAT_project

[3]	http://www.xmos.com/published/glossary