We have an I2S MEMs microphone (Adafruit I2S MEMS Microphone Breakout - SPH0645LM4H : ID 3421 : $6.95 : Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits) connected and working on J21 I2S0 but we would like to reduce the clock from the default (measured) 3.075MHz to 1.024MHz.
Is there something in the device tree I could tweak, or a utility to run?
The value of aud_mclk on my system is 11289599 which is about a third of the 3.075MHz coming out of J21. If I can just increase that divider from 3 to 9 that would solve the issue, but i’m not sure how to accomplish that.
Thanks!
Hello!
By default the aud_mclk is configured to be 256 * fs. So if your sample-rate is 44.1kHz, then the aud_mclk will be ~11.2896MHz. The bit clock is configured to be sample-rate * sample-size * number of channels.
The datasheet for SPH0645LM4H microphone featured on the I2S MEMs card states …
“The SPH0645LM4H microphone operates as an I2S
slave. The master must provide the BCLK and WS
signals. The Over Sampling Rate is fixed at 64 therefore
the WS signal must be BCLK/64 and synchronized
to the BCLK. Clock frequencies from 2.048Mhz to
4.096MHz are supported so sampling rates from 32KHz
to 64KHz can be had by changing the clock frequency.”
So I am not sure you can support a clock as low as 1.024MHz and it needs to be in the range from 2.048MHz to 4.096MHz.
The easiest way to reduce the bit clock is to reduce the sampling rate. For example, if you use a sample rate of 32kHz, then the bit clock should be 2.048MHz (32000 * 32 * 2).
If you are using the ‘arecord’ command to capture audio, then you can use the ‘-r’ option to set the sample rate to 32000Hz.
Regards,
Jon
Thank you for the great description! We’re actually switching to a different chip that has some different timing requirements so I wanted to find out how this worked.