Abstract
In digital audio, the information is transmitted as formatted bit streams. Some bit streams carry compressed audio data (e.g. MPEG Audio). Within a technical area, synchronous bit streams (i. e. bit streams derived from the same clock) can be generated, and asynchronous bit streams can be sychronised. This paper describes a study carried out at the Fraunhofer Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen (FhG-IIS), in simulation, of techniques for switching between synchronous ISO/IEC MPEG 1 Layer 3 audio signals.