Other Parts Discussed in Thread: TAS5634, TAS5624A, PUREPATHCONSOLE
Hello,
I currently evaluate to use TAS5558 + TAS5624A/TAS5634 in a product.
So far I understand that the original EVMs for these Class-D amps use a TAS1020B USB interface IC to communicate with Pure Path Console v1.16 via USB.
For initial evaluation this is simple and great.
But later on, when we did our own PCB using TAS5558 + TAS5624A (or TAS5634) we still would like to use PurePathConsole to tune the settings. Not only by us, but especially also by our customers (brands using our design as OEM product). Here it would be great if there is a small formfactor and cheap USB to I²C PCB that could be used to interface PPC1 to our custom board.
Of course we can ask all our our customers to by original EVM and only hook the I²C bus to our custom board. But this is costly and difficult.
We could do our own design using TAS1020B. But this IC is obsolete. So I am afraid, that we will not be able to buy it.
Questions:
- Is their any solution for a cheap and small PCB for this by TI?
- Does PPC1 provide any interface to third pary USB to I²C adapters?
If neither cheal/small PCB is available nor interface to third party USB-to-I²C adapter is available, another option could be that my customers would use PPC1 in offline mode. They could easily alte all settings and also save their setup as CCDEF file. But as far as I know, this CCDEF file includes no register values and just the settings of the GUI. So even when I develop a custom tool, that could communicate with TAS5558 via a third party USB to I²C adapter, my customer is not able to convert the CCDEF to any register table. I know that PPC1 can create full register dumps, but this is only possible, if it has connection to HW (which is not the case for my customer lacking original EVM). So I do not see any option to use PPC1 in offline mode to apply settings with third party adapter.
But maybe I overlooked something.
Questions:
- is my understanding correct, that there is no way create register setup by PPC1 without a real HW connection to original TI EVM?
- Do you have any advises how I could make my customers able to configure (and run this config) TAS5558 using PPC1 without original TI EVM?
