The Intel® Joule™ module supports microphones that use the PDM digital microphone standard attached through the AVS_M interface. Two microphones can share one data line by using time domain multiplexing to the two slots.

PDM microphones are enabled and disabled by the clock signal. Absence of clock signal will switch microphone to sleep mode, which can be utilized in system power management.

Additionally, the microphones can be power-gated to cut power consumption to zero when the microphones are not in use.

Refer to I2S Interface Specifications for additional information.

For information about signal termination and conditioning, definitions of the values in the following table, and how the values were measured, refer to Termination and Conditioning. For an example of how to wire a pullup resistor for a 3.3 V pullup voltage, refer to GPIO Signal Termination and Conditioning.