I'm trying to find out if an XMOS chip can perform the host role in a USB audio connection. Particularly for multichannel USB audio sources - searches on the web return conflicting and vague results so I thought I'd ask directly here if anyone can say definitively.
The goal is allow for any of the various multichannel USB audio source hardware devices no on the market, (i.e. audio mixers, interfaces, samplers, synthesizers etc.) to stream to an XMOS hardware implementation without any "computer" in the chain. In the MCU SoC world this is sometimes referred to as OTG.
Can XMOS Act as a USB Audio Host?
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Ross
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Technically the device is capable, but not software support has been developed or released.
A very old iPod dock reference design had a full-speed host using an external FS transceiver. This was XS1 based so very old now.
A very old iPod dock reference design had a full-speed host using an external FS transceiver. This was XS1 based so very old now.
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