top of page

VINSHINE AUDIO

Dear friends,

 

Thank you for your interest in updating the firmware of the DENAFRIPS DAC.

 

However, as you may already know, Vinshine Audio is no longer the distributor for DENAFRIPS. If you have a moment, I warmly invite you to watch our Farewell video published a few weeks ago: https://www.vinshine.audio/post/a-new-chapter-farewell-to-denafrips

We are currently in discussions with DENAFRIPS regarding the discontinuation of the firmware update project due to associated risks. At this time, we regret to inform you that we are unable to provide firmware update details until we receive clear guidance from DENAFRIPS.

We appreciate your understanding and patience in this matter.

​

Many thanks,

Alvin Chee

Discontinued · DENAFRIPS FPGA Firmware Update

DENAFRIPS DAC is equipped with Intel Cyclone® IV E FPGA, Field Programmable Gate Array. The software running in the FPGA is called firmware; a specified, purposed-built operating instructions the DENAFRIPS DAC uses. It is the heart of the DAC where complex Digital Signal Processing is happening in the FPGA.

 

One of the beauties of the FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), as the name suggested, it is Field Programmable.

 

DENAFRIPS DAC's FPGA firmware can be updated by using a Windows OS or MacOS computer over the USB port by a person with good computer knowledge. Most customers will be able to do it because it's fairly straightforward.

​

​

12th ANNV. FPGA FIRMWARE​

​

To commemorate DENAFRIPS’s 12 years of digital audio excellence, DENAFRIPS engineers have been working on a new 12th Annv. FPGA Firmware to improve the sound quality, add features, bugs fixed, update software and keep your device up-to-date. 

 

Areas of Improvement:

​

  • Improved Adaptive FIFO Buffer & Reclocking Architecture

  • Reduced the effect of Buffer overrun/underrun due to the Source's Clock and the DAC's Clock differences 

  • Reduced Audio Latency 

  • Eliminate Phase Difference between L/R Channels