SmartDV’s MIPI SoundWire Manager IP is a fully featured audio interface solution purpose-built for SoC designs requiring low-power, multi-drop audio streaming and control across mobile, automotive, IoT, and consumer electronics applications. Fully compliant with MIPI SoundWire v1.3, it delivers complete manager-side SoundWire functionality with support for up to 11 slave devices and up to 8 data lanes, providing a scalable, standards-compliant audio bus solution for connecting amplifiers, microphones, and codec devices to an application processor over a simple two-wire interface.
Designed for the practical integration challenges of modern multi-device audio subsystems, the IP features a configurable architecture covering PDI count, command FIFO depth, data lane count, and data port memories, alongside extensive clock gating and clearly demarcated clock domains for power-efficient SoC integration. Its comprehensive error management suite covering parity, synchronization, and CRC errors, combined with collision detection for both message and data channels, makes it a robust and reliable manager implementation for production audio subsystem designs.
Built for design flexibility and silicon efficiency, the IP core is highly configurable for both ASIC and FPGA implementations, with a strong focus on area optimization, power management, and peak performance. Its parameterized architecture and clean host interface enable fast integration and confident design bring-up across a wide range of process nodes and audio applications.
