Media-accelerated Global Information
Carrier
Engineering
Specification
Revision
2.8
July 5, 2002
Authors: Henry Juszkiewicz, Nathan Yeakel, Shri Amit,
Richard Frantz, and Jason Flaks
Contact: info@gibsonmagic.com
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Revision History
The following is a record of all public releases of this document.
Revision |
Release Date |
Comments |
1.0 |
9/18/99 |
Initial proposal to the audio industry at the 107th AES. |
1.1 |
2/2/00 |
NAMM 2000. |
2.0 |
1/20/01 |
NAMM 2001. Revised packet format. |
2.1 |
9/21/01 |
Complete rewrite. Revised control protocol and application
layer. New sample rate modification protocol. |
2.2 |
10/18/01 |
Changed flag order in word 12. Added more figures and improved
descriptions of all algorithms. Simplified the CTS/MIP control
protocol. Fixed bug in control message numbering. Added section on
Endian requirements. |
2.3 |
11/16/01 |
Added MIDI message encapsulation and timecode, and a Blob
component type. Also, added control packet requirement of at least
12 RX buffers on each port to ensure proper flow control. |
2.4 |
1/22/02 |
Added copy protection bit. Added reset enumeration from any
device on the network. Several minor edits to presentation. |
2.5 |
2/18/02 |
Renamed A and B ports to Send and Recieve
respectively. Rewrote chapter 8 to incorporate the Device Class
and predefined Component address. Added several new figures and
tables. |
2.6 |
3/4/02 |
Added: Identify Neighbor control message, device-specific ports,
their mnemonic names, channel counts, router configuration, product
& vendor id, super toggle source component, auto control links,
and error reporting control message. Updated all relevant packet
formats to reflect the same. |
2.7 |
4/17/02 |
Removed super toggle type. Added three channel number enable
control types. Fixed several typos in Chapter 8 and Appendix
G. Reserved port address 0. Reformatted Ret Comp Info and Ret
Dev Info. Added tables describing component-specific data format
for Ret Comp Info and Set New Value. |
2.8 |
7/5/02 |
Renamed Send and Receive
to OUT and IN
respectively. Modified power spec to be compliant with
IEEE802.3af. Assigned 0 as an
invalid component address. |
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