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Dante Embedded Platform

Bringing AV-as-software to life

The future of AV is software. Dante Embedded Platform delivers the real-time media connectivity that the future demands of your products.

Dante Embedded Platform lets you incorporate the world’s most widely used AV-over-IP networking solution directly into your Linux-based AV products. With minimal additional hardware and low marginal costs, Dante Embedded Platform preserves the smallest product footprint while enabling OEMs to deliver in-field software upgrades and more, so your products and your customers stay up-to-date.

And now with Dante Ready, manufacturers can let customers upgrade to the number of channels they need, when they need them, lowering your costs to implement.

Develop with confidence
Dante Embedded Platform is designed to work in products that run Linux on compact Arm processors as well as large, powerful x86 CPUs, and includes tools that eliminate costly guesswork. Dante Embedded Platform is fully documented and supported by Audinate.

Dante Embedded Platform is ideal for developing families of interoperable products that range from compact Arm-based products up to large, x86-based designs that deliver high channel counts with low, deterministic latency.
Plug into the Dante ecosystem
Dante is by far the leading AV-over-IP solution in the world, with over 3000 interoperable products available from more than 500 manufacturers of AV gear.

With Dante Embedded Platform in your products, users get immediate, no-fuss connectivity to all these devices, making it easy to select equipment that suits every customer’s needs for any system.

128x128 channels
Up to 128x128 channels of bidirectional audio*
Multiple sample rates
Supports 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, and 96 kHz sample rates
Minimum network latency
1 ms for Reference Design Kit, 5 ms typical for OEM systems using SDK*
  • Support for PTP-based precision clocking
  • Redundant network capable
  • Supports private encoding
  • Field software updates when available
  • Control interfaces: Dante API
  • Works with all Dante-enabled devices and software implementations
  • Compatible with Dante Controller
  • Compatible with Dante Domain Manager

* Maximum channel count and achievable latency will depend on processor type (x86 or Arm), speed, other processing loads, operating system configuration and tuning.

How to Implement

Validate designs with product design kits (PDK) and software development kits (SDK) for popular ARM CPUs:

i.MX 8M MINI QUADLITE PDK

Dante Embedded Platform Reference Design Kit for NXP’s i.MX 8M Mini QuadLite processor is validated by Audinate for Dante performance and lets OEMs design with confidence. Tested and qualified design for Arm-based Dante-enabled products

  • Up to 64x64 channels
  • Low 2 to 4 ms latency
  • Redundancy support
  • Works with single and multi-core CPUs
  • Fully compatible with all other Dante-enabled devices and tools
  • Support for Dante Domain Manager

SDK for Arm Cortex-A processors

Dante Embedded Platform Software Development Kit for Arm Cortex-A processors provides the tools needed to develop Dante-enabled products built upon 32- and 64-bit Arm Cortex-A processors using a Linux operating system, and supports online license activation for OEMs. Provides the tools needed to develop Dante-enabled products

  • For 32- and 64-bit Arm Cortex-A processors using a Linux operating system
  • Supports online license activation for OEMs
  • Fully compatible with all other Dante-enabled devices and tools
  • Support for Dante Domain Manager

A Dante Embedded Platform SDK for x86-based audio products is anticipated for release in the near future.

Dante Ready
Dante Ready is an optional feature for products made using Dante Embedded Platform. It allows end-users to purchase and add audio channels to a device after initial purchase through easy-to-use software. This gives customers the ultimate flexibility, paying only for as many channels as are required, and allows manufacturers to ship products at a lower base cost, offering customers to opportunity to upgrade as needed.