
HIFACE EVO
USING I
2
S OUTPUT
REVISION PrB - OCTOBER 2010
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PRODUCTION DATA information is current as of publication date.
Products conform to specifications per the terms of the M2Tech standard
warranty. Production processing does not necessarily include testing of all
parameters.
input compatibility, such as the SN74HCT125
by Texas Instruments (Fig. 3).
SINGLE-ENDED TO DIFFERENTIAL
CONVERSION (TTL OR CMOS)
Some D/A converters accept differential
signals on their I
2
S input (such as NorthStar
Design units). In this case, no simple level
translation (even if a level translation can be
necessary, too) can accommodate the D/A
converter’s input requirement. A format
conversion is necessary. It can be performed
using a inverting/non inverting buffer pair in
order to achieve an inverted copy of each
signal to drive a line in a balanced fashion
(Fig. 4). The non-inverting buffer is necessary
to introduce a small delay on the original
signal to match (not perfectly, but to a
satisfactory extent) that introduced by the
inverting buffer. For non-inverting buffers, go
for the usual SN74HCT125 (for 3.3V to 5V
translation) or the SN74LVC125 (no level
translation). Inversion and buffering can be
obtained by simply using four units of an hex
inverter such as TI’s SN74HCT04 (level
translation) or SN74LVC04 (no level
translation).
SINGLE-ENDED to LVDS (HDMI)
CONVERSION
Some D/A converters (such as PS Audio
PWD) accept LVDS signals on an HDMI
connector. To perform a single-ended to
LVDS conversion, National’s DS90C031B
can be used (Fig. 5). It is a quad LVDS driver
with TTL input compatibility which can be
directly coupled to hiFace Evo’s output.
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