DAE6
Class-D System Solution

Introducing the new DAE-6: the industry's first and only complete audio system on a single IC. Intersil D2Audio has combined its unmatched digital audio amplifier technology with the industry's most respected discrete processing firmware, to produce the easiest-to-use and most powerful platform for creating unique and highly-differentiated audio products.

This new family of Intersil D2Audio products features discrete decoders for Dolby Digital, DTS Digital Entertainment™ and AAC encoded audio streams, captured via integrated S/PDIF receivers and followed by up to 12 channels of audio processing. This processing is configurable with multi-band parametric equalization, assignable filtering, reverb, matrix decoding and bass management. In addition, the DAE-6 family includes automatic algorithms for correcting room acoustic imperfections or performance anomalies in speaker drivers and enclosures.

Intelligent Digital Audio Engine

At its core, the new DAE-6 is powered by the patented D2Audio Digital Audio Engine™ (DAE™) - the world's only Intelligent Digital Amplifier?. The unique intelligence of the Digital Audio Engine actively "monitors" the system, and uses the world's only all-digital feedback technology to optimize the amplifier's sound, delivering an immersive audio experience with incredible flexibility.

A Complete System-on-Chip Audio Solution

By integrating a digital signal processor (DSP) with configurable audio processing algorithms, the DAE-6 provides audio system designers with an extremely flexible and feature-rich platform. The Class-D engine is tightly coupled with the DSP which allows processing at the PWM switching rate and provides levels of protection, quality, and performance that are not achieveable in multi-chip solutions.

Smarter Audio System Solutions

The new DAE-6 family offers three different pin-compatible levels of audio performance for easy design migration and flexibility.

• Premium Audio: DAE-6 smartly integrates discrete and matrix audio decoders, post processing, and amp control with no need for external memory or glue logic.
• Premium Value: Uncompromised Class-D power amp control, optimum power efficiency and performance at a very cost-effective price. This option offers virtually unlimited audio processor configuration using AudioCanvas™ III.
  

Powerful Software for Powerful Audio Designs

With D2Audio® Audio Canvas™ III software, designers can easily and quickly build high quality new amplifier firmware and download it onto the target hardware. Audio Canvas software is a development tool for amplifier and system designs using the D2Audio Digital Audio Engine audio processor and Class-D amplifier controllers. Audio Canvas III allows the user to define the entire audio signal flow and architecture without signal flow limitations to any specific system configuration.

DAE-6 Features

• Scalable in power, platforms and channels
• D2Audio SoundSuite™ enhancement and virtualization
• DSP correction for room and speaker performance
• Virtually unlimited processor configurations using Audio Canvas™ III ? Integrated Dolby* Digital, DTS Digital EntertainmentTM and AAC Audio Decoder technologies
• Matrix decoding, bass management and post-processing
• Pin- and socket-compatible with DAE-3 for easy design migration
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• DAE-6 Applications
• Audio Video Receiver (AVR)
• DTV Soundbar
• Home Theater in A Box (HTiB)
• Multi-Channel Multi-Media (MM) Systems
• Multi-Room Distributed Audio (MRDA)
• Powered Speaker Systems
• Automotive Trunk/Amplified Solutions
  

*Dolby and the double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories. 
DTS and the Symbol are registered trademarks & the DTS logos are trademarks of DTS, Inc. To visit the official DTS website, click here.