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Sound Card for the Raspberry Pi
The PiFi DAC+ is a cheap Chinese clone of the HiFi Berry made by ukonline2000. It's based on the I2S digital audio converter (DAC) chip PCM5122.
The drivers are already included in the kernel, to activate them check:
- for the 3.12 kernel https://www.hifiberry.com/build/documentation/hifiberry-software-configuration/
- for the 4.x kernel https://www.hifiberry.com/build/documentation/configuring-linux-3-18-x/.
GPIO use
GPIO 2-3 (pins 3 and 5) are used for configuration - I2C GPIOs 18-21 (pins 12, 35, 38 and 40) are used for the sound interface - I2S