I am considering a Blackfin DSP hardware design which would need eight channels of audio input/output. I haven't been able to find a single audio codec with more than six input channels, so I am looking at daisy-chaining AD1938 codecs as described on page 19 of its datasheet [1].

In the past I worked on a prototype that used two AD1938 chips on separate SPORT interfaces. It worked, but having to deal with two ALSA sound devices made the software relatively complicated (error recovery, synchronization, etc). It would be nice if all of the channels appeared as a single ALSA device. I believe that daisy-chained AD1938 chips would work that way, but I haven't found an ALSA driver for that configuration.

Does such a driver already exist? Any suggestions for making one? Thanks for any input.

Steve

[1] - http://www.analog.com/static/imported-files/data_sheets/AD1938.pdf

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