IEC PAS 61883-6:1998

Introduction
Scope of the Audio and Music Transmission Protocol
References
Definitions and Abbreviations
   Abbreviations and Acronyms
   Technical glossary
Bit, Byte and Quadlet Ordering
Packet Header for Audio and Music Data
Isochronous Packet Header Format
CIP Header Format
Packet Transmission Method
Transmission of Timing Information
Time Stamp Processing
Transmission Control
Event Types
AM824 Data
   Generic Format
   IEC 958 Conformant Data
   Raw Audio Data
32-BIT Floating Point Data
24-BIT*4 Audio Pack
Subformat
Basic Format
Special Format
Appendix A: Blocking Transmission Method (Normative)
Appendix B: Packetization of IEC 60958 Data (Normative)
Appendix C: Synchronization Issues (Informative)
Deliver of Sampling Clock of Arbitrary Frequency

A PAS is a technical specification not fulfilling the requirements for a standard, but made available to the public and established in an organization operating under given procedures. IEC-PAS 61883-6 was submitted by the 1394 Trade Association. Applies to all modules or devices which have any kind of audio and/or music data processing, generation and conversion function blocks. All modules or devices which implement this A/M protocol should have the capability of "arbitrated short bus reset" defined in IEEE-P1394a in order to prevent the interruption of audio and music data transmission when a bus reset occurs.