USB AUDIO DRIVER SUPPORT

The XMOS USB Audio firmware supports both USB Audio Class 1.0 and USB Audio Class 2.0.

Windows 10 and Apple macOS version 10.6.4 and above natively supports USB Audio Class 2.0 – no driver install is required. For advanced feature support we recommend the USB Audio Class 2.0 Driver from Thesycon; there’s also an evaluation version for use with our dev kits which you can download below.
Evaluation and production Windows drivers are also available from our partners CEntrance or Ploytec.

WINDOWS USB AUDIO 2.0 DRIVER COMPARISON

  Evaluation / Prototyping Production (Thesycon Driver)
Features USB Audio Class 2.0 & 1.0 asynchronous operation
Technical Audio channels Multichannel in/out
Sample rate 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz, 176.4 kHz, 192 kHz, 352.8 kHz, 384 kHz, 705.6 kHz, 768 kHz, 1411.2 kHz, 1536 kHz
Sample depth 16, 24, 32bit, floating 32bit1
DSD Native DSD
DSD over PCM (DoP)
Clock domains Multiple
Latency / buffering Adjustable
Down to 3ms round trip
ASIO ASIO 2.3.1, multiple clients
WDM / DirectX MME, DirectSound, WASAPI
MIDI Yes
HID Yes
DFU Yes. Supplied with customizable DFU wizard application
OS Support Windows 10 (x32 and x64), Windows 11 (x64 and arm64)
Customisation PID / VID XMOS VID
XMOS EVK PIDs
Customizable
Customer supplied VID & PID
Branding Thesycon Customizable splash screen, strings and icons
Control panel Yes Customizable
SDK with C++ API
Code signing Microsoft Microsoft
Terms Cost Free License fee
Restrictions / Licensing XMOS designs only.
Locked to XMOS VID & PIDs.
Evaluation and prototyping.
Fully featured evaluation
version of Thesycon
production driver.
Beep tones every 5minutes
after 60minutes.
Negotiable.
Various licenses available
including unlimited and
royalty free.
Support Standard XMOS support Thesycon support contract
Deliverable EXE driver installer & kit Customization kit
Availability DOWNLOAD THESYCON

1 Feature supported by the driver, but not by XMOS firmware.

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