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Dante IP Core

High Performance, Small Footprint

Dante IP Core is the clear choice for manufacturers looking to build best-of-breed Dante solutions with total control over cost, platform, features and performance.

Dante IP Core enables you to add Dante AV-over-IP networking flexibly and cost-effectively to FPGA-based AV products, minimizing footprint and reducing BOM expenditures.

Dante IP Core runs efficiently alongside OEM product applications on Xilinx FPGAs, providing channel counts up to 512x512 with ultra-low latency and sub-microsecond synchronization, enabling unprecedented levels of integration and flexibility.

Cost-effective
Get more out of your FPGA expenditures and resources by integrating Dante IP Core alongside your product applications on the same chip. The lower total solution cost of the single-FPGA model returns significant BOM savings that can be used to drive sales, boost margins, or deliver extra features.
Future-proof
Dante IP Core gives you the flexibility to upgrade your design with newer FPGA parts as they become available, allowing you to keep pace with the industry and stay on point with class-leading products that pass even the most demanding performance benchmarks.
Compact
By reducing designs to a single FPGA, products can be built with a smaller footprint and lower total power consumption. ASRC, audio encryption, signal processing modules – your choice of additional functionality can be built directly into the FPGA alongside the Dante core, simplifying your design process and enabling a huge range of unique and disruptive products.
Feature-packed
The Dante IP Core solution includes all the interfaces required for a complete and fully-functional Dante endpoint, including network, SiLabs VCXO clock, serial audio, DDR2 or DDR3 and SRAM, plus a variety of standard control interfaces including UART, SPI and I2C.

Segregated from the audio processing engine, system management is handled by an integrated Microblaze soft-core CPU, which supports custom user code for your own embedded Dante API applications.
Flexible
Dante IP Core runs on the Xilinx Spartan-6 and Artix-7 FPGA families, allowing you to choose the optimal part for your product needs, space constraints, and power requirements.

With support for up to 512x512 channels and 128x128 audio flows at sample rates up to 192kHz, Dante IP Core packs the same mighty punch as Audinate’s flagship Dante HC module – and is also available with lower channel-count configurations to enable cost-effective products for all segments of the industry.
Responsive Support, Extensive Resources
The Dante IP Core license includes a substantial technical support package, and access to a comprehensive repository of mature development resources to help you design and implement host integration, embedded applications, and remote control and monitoring systems.

Specifications

Audio

  • Sample rates up to 192 kHz in multiples of 44.1/48kHz with pull-up/down
  • Bit depths: 24, 16 and 32 bits per sample
  • Up to 512x512 channels at 44.1/48kHz, 256x256 channels at 88.2/96kHz and 128x128 channels at 176.4 /192kHz
  • Up to 128x128 simultaneous audio packet streams for transmit and receive
  • Up to 1024 samples audio buffering per channel
  • Flexible synchronous serial audio interface, up to 32 x SDIN and 32 x SDOUT audio lines
  • Hardware audio metering

Network

  • Standard RGMII/MII interface for Ethernet PHY or switch chip
  • Software and firmware are upgradable over network

Clock

  • High-quality, low jitter clock with companion Silicon Labs clock generator
  • External word clock sync input

What’s Included

Reference Project for ISE / Vivado

  • Top Level example file and constraints
  • NGC / encrypted ED IF netlists
  • Supporting files

Build scripts

Testbench with encrypted source files (Modelsim)

  • Reference schematics
  • Layout guidelines
    • Reference BOM
    • Activation dongle

Supported Platforms

  • Xilinx Zynq-7000
  • Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+
  • Contact sales for information about additional platform support
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