Is there a better way,5V I2S to 3.3V CMOS

[Bill Fuss]

I'm mating an SAA7210 output to the input of the CS8421. It seems to work fine with simple resistive dividers but have not done any critical listening yet.

Just asking if there is a better way of doing this, it will be all in the player chassis, very short wire runs.

Thanks in advance, Bill

 

[Bill Fuss]

No one has ever done this? That's hard to believe.

I could use a 74VHC125, but would it be an actual improvement?

 

[prairiemystic]

Hi Bill, I don't use resistive dividers for high-speed signals, say a few MHz up. It's a tradeoff between loading the driver IC and keeping a low impedance signal that doesn't get rounded off too much due to circuit capacitance. If the CS8421 is close to the SAA7210 and your traces/wiring is symmetrical then resistors should be okay. If you used say 5K and 10K that's too high (slow), 500 and 1k is 3.3mA load and guessing 20ns delay. 50 and 100 ohms is 33mA and too much for the driver.

Being lazy, I use 3.3V powered buffer IC's with 5V-tolerant inputs. Fairchild numbers here: Quad (74LCX125) or Octal (74LCX244) buffers. The TinyLogic parts are good if you only have one or two signals to level translate.

 

[Bill Fuss]

Thanks for the info. I did start with 1k/500 but thinking it might be too much load I changed to 2k/1k which seems to work fine. The leads are pretty long right now but will end up around 4" when I'm done. The scope traces look great except for the ws, the bottom half was blurred. I put a 1k in series with it and it cleaned up nicely. I'm pretty much searching in the dark with this stuff but I'm learning.

I was pretty impressed with the difference, getting rid of all the SPDIF crap, quite a change.

Thanks again, Bill

 

[ashaw]

how about the TXB0108 from TI. $1