PCM5100A: no audio output after it power on

Hi Henry,

Can you confirm that you see the correct Voltage on the Vneg pin? I assume your VNEG is also not working correctly.

Also please provide the clk frequencies. IIt might something is not right with your clks, i have to get more info. 

On the schematic, In general it is recommended you provide dedicated decupling caps on each supply pin ( even though you tie the supplies to a common power supply. 

If you reset the system and audio works, it is ok. It is not okay if the audio stops working and you have to reset it again and again. So what is the case here?

Please label the various plots of clks that you have in the doc file so I know which conditions each one is for. Thanks,

Arash

Hi Sir,

I updated the some figures on the attachment. Please help review and advise some comments. Thanks!

The customer used the 3-wire I2S audio source. The LRCK is 48kHz, BCK(SCK) is 3.072MHz.

PCM5100A did no audio output waveform_20240826_update.docx

Hi Sir,

Thank you for your advise.

Refer to the Table 10, and use the 4-wire I2S mode.

In the 128 fs, use the Sampling Frequency=48kHz, the SCK(6.144MHz) only support the PLL mode, it cannot use the external CLK input, right?

Correct!  For sampling frequency of 48KHz, , 64x is not supported, the slowest SCK has to be 128x (6.144MHz) and the  PLL is disabled as soon as  external SCK is supplied.

Regards,

Arash

Hi Sir,

Could you advise the rise time for 3.3V power?

The customer adjust to about 11ms for 0V rise to 2.8V, for the 3-wire I2S mode(test conditions are same), they still found PCM5100A has the no audio output issue.

Hello Henry,

11ms should be  more than enough.

So I understand that now they are using 4 wire I2S with correct SCK which is 6.144MHz  not the 3.07MHz they were using originally.

 From plots, XSMT is always HIGH so it should be ok. Also I assume their clk is valid all the time so the 4ms initialization time  is met . At this point I would suggest to remove any connection to the output of the DAC ( at most only leave a simple and basic RC filter as shown in figure 33. N, remove R499  and R450m as well)

PCM510x family is very simple and HW control so it should not  be difficult to find the issue. 

Regards,

Arash

Hi Sir,

Thank you for your advice.

The customer refer to your suggestion and also try to let the XSMT be held low until all the clocks are established. (refer to this E2E)
Both methods still cannot fix this issue.

Hi

Today is a U.S. holiday so our engineers in the U.S. will get back to you no later than tomorrow.

Thank you for your patience,

Jeff McPherson

Hi Henry,

Have they power up first and then apply VALID I2S clks and see the result? I not sure they have looked at this case yet.

Just to confirms again,  they have checked with the following 2 cases and the output comes out  in both cases ONLY when they reset the power supply.

1) 3-wire I2S  with fs=48KHZ, and BCK of   3.072 MHz  ( CORRECTION) 

2)  4-wire I2S with SCK (system/master clk) of 6.144MHz  -which disables the internal PLL,

If the above statements are correct and mute is not triggered, I need to test the IC on my board myself and verify the observation.  As I said, this this a very simple part, once the clks are valid and supply is above 2.8V , it should reset itself and generate the output 

My  last comment before sending  the part to me is to try one more time and plot the case when there is no Vout  vs when they  reset the supply voltage and Vout appears, Plot Supply as well as I2S and Vout

Regards,

Arash

Hi Sir,

The customer taken the PCM5100EVM to do the test and got the same result, please refer to the attachment.

test condition: used 3-wire I2S  with fs=48KHZ, and BCK of  1.536 or 3.072 MHz.

PCM5100EVM no output waveforms.docx

Hi Henry,

If with EVM still they have a problem, that clearly points to signals/supply issue and not the IC itself or the board.

I will do the test on the EVM myself and will share some photos of jumber and wire set up as well as some plots.

Meanwhile can they power up the offical EVM in the picture using the USB just to make sure the correct supplies are available on the EVM.

Just a quick correction, with fs=48KHZ,the  BCK  should be 3.072 MHz ( for 2 channel 32bit ) as I mentioned in my original post,   and  1.536MHz should not be used for this configuration. 

Regards,

Arash