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Khadas Tone1 User Manual

Thank you for purchasing a Khadas Tone1. Now you can easily enjoy Hi-Res Audio at home.

Box set

VIMs Edition Generic Edition
Tone1 (with 20 & 40 pin header on board) Tone1
USB Cable USB Cable
Set of Screws Set of Screws
- Header: 40-Pin Female
- Header: 20-Pin

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Device connection

40-Pin header connection

This connection type through 40-Pin header suitable for VIM or Edge devices.

Step Operation
1 Connect Tone1 and VIM1/VIM2/Edge-V SBC through 40-Pin Header
2 Connect RCA output
3 Connect HDMI
4 Connect DC 5V

USB-C connection

Common connection type for PC/Smartphones and any other devices.

Step Operation
Step1 Connect RCA output
Step2 Connect Tone1 with PC using a USB-C data cable

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Setting Up

Most software platforms have integrated Tone1 Drivers. Only Windows platforms need to install drivers.

VIM1/VIM2/Edge

Make sure the firmware of your VIM1 is upgraded to VIM_Nougat_V180524 or later.
Make sure the firmware of your VIM2 is upgraded to VIM2_Nougat_V180413 or later.
Edge-V TBD.

Windows

We will use Windows 10 for this example. Windows 7 is similar.

  • Install XMOS Driver:
  • Switch sound-card to the Tone1:
    • Click the sound icon in the lower-right-corner of the Windows Task-Bar.
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    • Chose XMOS XS1-U8 DJ as the default sound-card.
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Ubuntu

Switch sound-card to the Tone1.

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MacOS

Switch sound-card to the Tone1.

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Raspberry Pi

Switch sound-card to the Tone1.

  • Volumio
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  • Raspbian 
    1.list sound card
$ aplay -l
 
2.switch sound card
$vi ~/.asoundrc
 
3.replace card 0 for XMOS sound card
pcm.!default {
    type hw
    card 0
}
 
ctl.!default {
    type hw
    card 0
}

Ports and Interfaces

No Ports Function
1 USB-C Power supply & data transmission
2 S/PDIF S/PDIF input/output
3 L Audio left channel output
4 R Audio right channel output
5 20-Pin Header Debug Port, update XMOS firmware
6 40-Pin Header VIMs connector (Power supply & data transmission)
7 I2S VIMs I2S output
8 8 Channel Ext XMOS 8 Channel extend
9 OLED VIMs OLED display
10 Power LED Power supply indicator

20-Pin Header pin-out - J4

Signal Pin Pin Signal
VCC_3V3 1 11 Tone_5V
Linux_TX 2 12 Tone_5V
Linux_RX 3 13 GND
GND 4 14 GND
XL_DN1 5 15 XMOS_RST
XL_DN0 6 16 XMOS_TDO
XL_UP0 7 17 XMOS_TDI
XL_UP1 8 18 XMOS_TCK
XMOS_3V3 9 19 XMOS_TMS
GND 10 20 GND

40-Pin Header pin-out - J1

Signal Pin Pin Signal
5V_1 1 21 GND5
5V_2 2 22 OLED_SCL
VIM_DN 3 23 OLED_SDA
VIM_DP 4 24 GND6
GND 5 25 -
- 6 26 -
- 7 27 VCC_3V3
- 8 28 GND7
GND 9 29 I2S_SCLK
ADC0 10 30 I2S_MCLK
- 11 31 I2S_SDO
- 12 32 I2S_LRCK
VIM_SPDIF 13 33 I2S_SDI
GND3 14 34 GND8
UART_RX_AO_B / SPDIF_MODE 15 35 OLED_PWREN
UART_TX_AO_B / SPDIF_IN_MODE 16 36 -
GND4 17 37 OLED_RST
Linux_RX 18 38 -
Linux_TX 19 39 MUTE
VCC_3V3 20 40 GND9

I2S FPC connector pin-out - J9

Pin Singal
1 Tone_5V
2 GND
3 VCC_3V3
4 GND
5 I2S_SCLK
6 I2S_MCLK
7 I2S_SDI
8 I2S_LRCK
9 I2S_SDO
10 GND

Ext 8 Channel FPC connector pin-out - J3

Pin Signal
1-3 Tone_5V
4-6 GND
7-8 XMOS_3V3
9 XMOSIO3
10 XMOSIO2
11 XMOSIO1
12 ADC0
13 VOLUME
14 XMOS_SCL
15 XMOS_SDA
16 MUTE
17 DAC_RST
18 GND
19 MCLK
20 GND
21 LRCK/DSD_CLK
22 GND
23 BCLK/DSD_1
24 GND
25 SIN0/DSD_2
26 SIN1/DSD_3
27 SIN2/DSD_4
28 SIN3/DSD_5
29 DSD_6
30 GND

OLED FPC connectors pin-out - J8

Pin Signal
1 Tone_5V
2 Tone_5V
3 OLED_SCL
4 OLED_SDA
5 GND
6 -
7 OLED_RST
8 OLED_PWREN
9 -
10 GND

FAQs

How to extend to 8-channel audio?

XMOS supports 8-channel analog line-out. However, the Tone1 DAC (ES9038Q2M) is already using 2-channels. Users can add a DAC for 8-channel expansion.