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Intel Edison and Open Music Labs' Audio Codec Shield

posted Aug 31, 2015, 6:29 PM by Sergey Kiselev   [ updated Aug 31, 2015, 6:36 PM ]
Recently I found this Audio Codec Shield made by Open Music Labs. Surprisingly the pinout of this shield, and I2S signals particularly, match the pinout of the Intel Edison Arduino breakout board.

And so it is not difficult to make this shield work with Intel Edison. For the simple audio playback it is needed to setup pin multiplexing on the Arduino breakout board, so that I2S and I2C signals are routed to the Arduino headers, and then to configure the codec, in the way similar to what I've described in my previous post.

Hardware Setup

I'd recommend configuring Arduino breakout board pins voltage to 3.3V by setting jumper J9 to position 2-3. Once it is configured, plug the Audio Codec Shield into the Arduino breakout board.

Pin Multiplexing Setup

Use the following code to setup the I2S and I2C signals on Arduino breakout board headers. You might want to create a script with this code, and make it run on the boot.

# Export GPIOs that control I2S signals

echo 263 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo 240 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo 262 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo 241 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo 242 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo 243 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo 258 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo 259 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo 260 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo 261 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo 226 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo 227 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo 228 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo 229 > /sys/class/gpio/export

# Export GPIOs that control I2C signals

echo 28 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo 27 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo 204 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo 205 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo 236 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo 237 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo 14 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo 165 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo 212 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo 213 > /sys/class/gpio/export

# Export TRI_STATE_ALL control GPIO

echo 214 > /sys/class/gpio/export

# Disable all pins (enable TRI_STATE_ALL)
echo low > /sys/class/gpio/gpio214/direction

# Configure I2S signals on Arudino pins 10-13

# Pin 10 
# set to GPIO (not PWM)
echo high > /sys/class/gpio/gpio263/direction
# I2S (map to GP41)
echo low > /sys/class/gpio/gpio240/direction
# output
echo high > /sys/class/gpio/gpio258/direction
# disable pull up
echo in > /sys/class/gpio/gpio226/direction

# Pin 11
# set to GPIO (not PWM)
echo high > /sys/class/gpio/gpio262/direction
# I2S (map to GP43)
echo low > /sys/class/gpio/gpio241/direction
# output
echo high > /sys/class/gpio/gpio259/direction
# disable pull up
echo in > /sys/class/gpio/gpio227/direction

# Pin 12
# I2S (map to GP42)
echo low > /sys/class/gpio/gpio242/direction
# input
echo low > /sys/class/gpio/gpio260/direction
# disable pull up
echo in > /sys/class/gpio/gpio228/direction

# Pin 13
# I2S (map to GP40)
echo low > /sys/class/gpio/gpio243/direction
# output
echo high > /sys/class/gpio/gpio261/direction
# disable pull up
echo in > /sys/class/gpio/gpio229/direction

# Configure I2C signals on Arduino pins A4 and A5

# Pin A4
# set to GPIO (not analog in)
echo low > /sys/class/gpio/gpio204/direction
# configure gpio14 as input (tri-state it)
echo in > /sys/class/gpio/gpio14/direction
# output
echo low > /sys/class/gpio/gpio236/direction
# disable pull up
echo in > /sys/class/gpio/gpio212/direction
# set to mode1 (I2C)
echo mode1 > /sys/kernel/debug/gpio_debug/gpio28/current_pinmux

# Pin A5
# set to GPIO (not analog in)
echo low > /sys/class/gpio/gpio205/direction
# configure gpio165 as input (tri-state it)
echo in > /sys/class/gpio/gpio165/direction
# output
echo low > /sys/class/gpio/gpio237/direction
# disable pull up
echo in > /sys/class/gpio/gpio213/direction
# set to mode1 (I2C)
echo mode1 > /sys/kernel/debug/gpio_debug/gpio27/current_pinmux

# Enable all pins (disable TRI_STATE_ALL)
echo high > /sys/class/gpio/gpio214/direction

Codec Configuration

Use the following commands to configure the codec:
# reset codec
i2cset -y 6 0x1a 0x1e 0x00

# disable DAC and output powerdown
i2cset -y 6 0x1a 0x0c 0x07

# set volume for headphone output (both channels)
i2cset -y 6 0x1a 0x05 0x50

# analog audio path control (DAC enabled)
i2cset -y 6 0x1a 0x08 0x12

# digital audio path control
i2cset -y 6 0x1a 0x0a 0x00

# set sample rate (48000Hz, assuming 12.288MHz codec clock)
#i2cset -y 6 0x1a 0x10 0x00

# set sample rate (44100Hz, assuming 11.2896MHz codec clock)
i2cset -y 6 0x1a 0x10 0x20


# digital audio interface format set (DSP mode, 24 bit)
i2cset -y 6 0x1a 0x0e 0x8b

# activate interface
i2cset -y 6 0x1a 0x12 0x01

Using the Audio Device

The codec is connected to ALSA device hw:1,0 . Refer to the software documentation on configuring the device name. For example in mpg123 player the audio device can be specified using -a switch:
mpg123 -a hw:1,0 -v "Dave Brubeck - Take Five.mp3"

AlexT's repository has several software packages that support audio output.

Output volume can be adjusted by writing headphone out register at address 0x05 (both channels) or 0x04 (left channel) and 0x06 (right channel), e.g.:
i2cset -y 1 0x1a 0x05 0x50

References

Intel® Edison Kit for Arduino* Hardware Guide
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