Slots And Sample Formats - Laird BT830-SA Hardware Integration Manual

BT830 Hardware Integration Guide
Version 1.3

Slots and Sample Formats

BT830 receives and transmits on any selection of the first four slots following each sync pulse. Slot durations are
either 8 or 16 clock cycles:
8 clock cycles for 8-bit sample formats
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16 clock cycles for 8-bit, 13-bit, or 16-bit sample formats
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BT830 supports:
13-bit linear, 16-bit linear, and 8-bit µ-law or A-law sample formats
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A sample rate of 8 ksps
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Little or big endian bit order
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For 16-bit slots, the three or eight unused bits in each slot are filled with sign extension, padded with zeros or a
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programmable 3-bit audio attenuation compatible with some codecs.
Figure 8: 16-bit slot Length and sample formats
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