As Dante continues to expand as a leading audio networking solution, providing seamless interoperability for manufacturers and integrators, the company continues to offer a growing number of ready-to-use modules, development kits and software, enabling faster time-to-market. Audinate makes Dante available as software or hardware and offers modules from single channel to massive 512x512 channels, all featuring lossless audio, ultra-low latency and guaranteed compatibility with all other Dante-enabled products. Dante Embedded Platform is a software implementation targeting audio and video products implemented on Linux running on commodity ARM processors, and there's even a reference kit based on NXP’s i.MX 8M Mini QuadLite.
The Dante Embedded Platform SDK provides the tools needed to develop Dante-enabled products built specifically upon 32- and 64-bit ARM Cortex-A processors using a Linux operating system, and supports online license activation for OEMs. The SDK allows manufacturers to validate their own designs for performance and capability, ensuring solid reliability for end users.
"We’re very pleased to offer the first SDK for Dante as software," says Nick Mariette, Product Manager at Audinate. "We’re just beginning to see the changes brought to the AV industry through families of software-based products. ARM-based audio devices are incredibly flexible and cost effective, and now Dante can be integrated in to deliver a truly great customer experience."
Products development to run Dante as software on those embedded platforms are still able to scale to offer up to 128x128 channels of bidirectional audio at 48kHz with future support for other Dante sample rates, and with a minimum network latency of 1ms (5ms typical for OEM systems). Designs are still able to support PTP-based precision clocking, are a redundant network capable, and support private encoding and field software updates when available. These products can also work with all Dante-enabled devices and software implementations and are compatible with Dante Controller and Dante Domain Manager software.
In addition to support for ARM Cortex-A processors, a Dante Embedded Platform SDK for x86-based audio products is anticipated for release in the near future. The Dante Embedded Platform SDK for ARM processors is available immediately.
For developers interested in following the latest available embedded computing solutions, we recommend our sister publications linuxgizmos.com and Circuit Cellar for embedded development.
Audinate Dante Audio-over-IP (and now also Dante AV) is used extensively in the professional live sound, commercial installation, broadcast, public address, and recording industries. Dante is used in over 2800 completely interoperable products available from over 500 manufacturers.
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