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XCore 200 MC platform: AVB connection between two boards

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:29 pm
by paolovecchiotti
I have two XCore 200 MC boards and I would like to establish an AVB connection between them.
I manage to run the AN 202 example on both of them from two different PCs.
Successively I establish a physical link connecting them with an Ethernet cable.
Then an input audio stream is sent to one of the input port of first board, meanwhile a speaker is attached to the respective output port of the second board.

I supposed to be able to listen to the input audio stream from the speaker, but it does not happen.

Reading the AN 202 manual, the connection between a Mac OS to Xcore 200 MC is possible by means of a Thunderbolt port, a Thunderbolt and Ethernet adapter and the dedicated software.

Thus my questions are: does the AN 202 example require additional code to send an input audio stream through AVB protocol? Or a particular setting is necessary, like in the config. file?
In the AN202 example a connection is possible since the dedicated software takes care of the connection?

Thank you for support.

Re: XCore 200 MC platform: AVB connection between two boards

Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 9:04 am
by infiniteimprobability
I think you may need to enable the built in 1722.1 controller if you want to run without an external one - http://www.xcore.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=3952

Re: XCore 200 MC platform: AVB connection between two boards

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2016 9:46 am
by paolovecchiotti
Thanks for help, everything is working.

As described in the IEEE standards, the AVB communication is possible from a talker to a listener only if a controller takes care of the communication itself.

Re: XCore 200 MC platform: AVB connection between two boards

Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 9:32 am
by infiniteimprobability
Glad it's working for you. Thanks for sharing the update!