Tempo Semiconductor TSCS42xx Audio HAT Board for Raspberry Pi®

Author : Tempo semiconductor Published Time : 2018-11-12

Tempo Semiconductor TSCS42xx Audio HAT Board transforms the Raspberry Pi into a customizable audio solution for a variety of applications. The TSCS42xx has an integrated DSP that is easily adjustable using the TSCS42xx ALSA GUI and flash savable. Optional support for OLED display panel enables a completely "plug-and-play" stand-alone operation without a need to connect a monitor, mouse, keyboard, USB flash disk, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Ethernet cable.

Features

The FIRST and ONLY Audio Codec HAT board for Raspberry Pi with an integrated DSP that is easily adjustable using the TSCS42xx ALSA GUI and flash savableFull driver support in Raspbian* / NOOBS* / LinuxCompatible with VLC / OSMC / RuneAudio / Volumio / Moode / PiCorePlayer / PiMusicBox / OpenELEC / etc.Standard terminal screw connects offer a standard method of connecting speakers Stereo analog line level input via 3.5mm jack (J11 Aux)Integrated Pop & Click-Free Capless, Ground-Center Referenced HP Driver via 3.5mm jack (J10 Headset)

Technical Information

Tempo Semiconductor TSCS42xx - Low-Power Audio Codec - 96kHz / 32-bit with integrated 24-bit signal processing engineSpeaker Amplifier: Maximum power output of 2 x 3W* (RMS) into 4 Ohms at 10% THD+N, 2 x 1.5W* (RMS) into 8 Ohms at 10% THD+N (*with an appropriate power supply)Fully integrated hardware volume mixing via “ALSAMIX” or any ALSA compatible applicationThe additional Hardware-based DSP Audio Processing features inside the TSCS42xx Codec DSP engine can be controlled via the I2C interface from the Broadcom SOC using the Tempo Semiconductor supplied, opensource ALSA compatible application GUI (or via command line controls):Two independent banks of stereo 6-band Parametric EQs or configurable biquad filters (such as High-Pass, Low-Pass, Band-Pass, All-Pass, etc)Wideband, Stereo DRC (Dynamic Range Compressor)