Technologies

Connectivity is at the core of Lab X’s technology expertise and corporate focus. If it has an Ethernet jack and Audio / Video media, this is Lab X’s domain.

Standards-Based AV Connectivity

AVB (Audio Video Bridging)

AVB is an umbrella of a number of IEEE amendments and new standards to Ethernet to facilitate the reliable, low latency delivery of AV media. Lab X is strong proponent and contributor in the AVB community (Note: this link sends you to the AVnu.org website) and is actively developing audio and video IP platforms around this technology.

MADI

Multichannel Audio Digital Interface, MADI (AES10) is an communications protocol for data format and electrical characteristics of an interface carrying multiple channels of digital audio over coaxial and fiber-optic cable. The Audio Engineering Society (AES) standard for MADI introduced in 1991 (AES10-1991) and was updated by in 2003 (AES10-2003). The MADI standard serial digital transmission supports 28, 56, or 64 channels is supported, with sampling rates of up to 96 kHz and resolution of up to 24 bits per channel. Lab X has road-hardened MADI IP for FPGA implementations.

Lab X also offers a modular MADI solution via our MADIX module, as well as MADI IP licensing options for direct intergration into FPGAs .

Proprietary Audio Connectivity

There have been a number of proprietary audio connectivity standard over the years. Lab X as been recognized widely within the Professional, Live Sound, and Engineered / Commercial audio markets as the “Switzerland of Connectivity”, having extensive experience with these leading proprietary technologies.

These include:

  • Cobranet (from Cirrus Logic)
  • EtherSound (from Digigram)
  • A-Net Pro16 (from Aviom)
  • Dante (from Audinate)

Lab X also offers flexible modular solutions for EtherSound and A-Net Pro16, which are mechanically and electrically compatible with Cobranet CM1 and CM2 modules (available directly from Cirrus Logic) and Dante DCM modules (available directly from Audinate, utilizing Lab X MIX module interface IP to assure compatibility).

Generalized Ethernet

Lab X also has extensive experience with various forms of “generic” Ethernet implementation of various protocols in embedded platforms such as HTTP (embedded web servers), TFTP, SNMP, etc. for command, control, and monitoring of embedded platforms.

A large number of Lab X projects involve embedded Linux (both uCLinux without memory management support as well as “full” Linux with MMU support).