Patent 7765019 was granted and assigned to Wolfson Microelectronics on July, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention provides an audio codec for converting digital audio signals to analogue audio signals, the audio codec comprising: two digital audio bus interfaces for coupling to respective digital audio buses; a digital-only signal path between the two digital audio bus interfaces, such that no analogue processing of the audio signals occurs in the digital-only signal path.