Philips Sony Digital Audio Interface

14 EE June 1988 PHILIPS SONY DIGITAL AUDIO INTERFACE As digital techniques find application in more and more branches of electronic engineering, the time cannot be far when audio equipment is also interconnected by digital interfaces. One such interface has been in use for a number of years already: at the output of CD players. This article describes the Philips-Sony design of such an interface. In broadcasting and recording studios, the era of digital recording began in the late 1970s. Right from the start, it was realized that in order to transfer digital audio data between the many pieces of equipment, it would be imperative to specify standards for the required inter- faces. With the support and partici- pation of the European Broadcasting Union-EBU-and the Audio Engineer- ing Society-AES-a serial interface with high transfer speed was developed, which, under the name AES - EBU In- terface has found extensive application in audio studios. With the advent of the CD ...