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3.
DESIGN HIGHLIGHTS
3.1
ADAPTIVE FIFO BUFFER RECLOCKING
The DENAFRIPS approach to address the jitters issue by FIFO BUFFER RECLOCKING. The
adaptive FIFO buffer store the source digital audio data in the memory. These data are read
from the memory using the low phase noise, precision FEMTO Clock, located right in the
DAC.
This technology is close to the perfection, especially so with the local FEMTO Clock. The
jitter is so small that it can be neglected.
3.2
I2S INPUT
PONTUS comes with a LVDS I2S input over the HDMI connector. Despite the I2S input has no
industrial standard, it is probably the best digital input interface to-date.
NOTE
: DENAFRIPS
cannot guarantee the compatibility with other I2S devices.
3.3
PROPRIETARY, STATE-OF-THE-ART USB INTERFACE
The PONTUS is equipped with the proprietary USB Audio Solution, powered by STM32F446
Advanced AMR Based MCU. DENAFRIPS redesigned and optimized circuitry, allow the DAC
to be used as high-end DAC with computers / streamers. It supports 24bit/1536kHz PCM
data stream, and native decoding of DSD up to DSD1024. It comes with licensed THESYCON
USB Driver for Windows Platform.
NOTE:
The USB Module is designed to trigger on
only
when USB Input is selected. This is
intended design to reduce digital input interfaces cross-interference for best sound
reproduction.
3.4
PROPRIETARY SPDIF DIGITAL AUDIO RECEIVER
The SPDIF Coaxial, Optical, AES/EBU input support up to 24bit/192kHz digital audio format.
The PONTUS abandon the use of Digital Audio Receiver chip. The digital data is decoded by
the on-board FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), signal path is shortened and
eliminated the undesirable coloration.
