View source for Avid E3 Engine Internals

## Overview

The E3 Engine contains a daughter board, the Diamond Platform controller (see [[Avid Diamond Platform]]) running Linux that enables the AVB protocol stack, and connects to the physical audio interfaces of the E3 engine. The fourth Ethernet port is controlled by Windows.

It also contains a second daughter board, the Feroceon-KW controller (see [[Avid Feroceon-KW]]) running Linux that enables the Ethernet switching functionality of the AVB ports. It also provides an EUCON proxy for connecting to the S3 console.

This is a rough block diagram based on my current understanding from my digging.

[[File:Avid_E3_Engine_Block.png]]


## Credits

Many thanks to Karl Noon (audio@noon.ruhr), who is the person who supplied me with just enough info that I was able to find my way into the internals of the [[Avid S3L]].

Avid [ex]-employees I've tracked down
- Jeff Koftinoff (http://www.linkedin.com/in/jdkoftinoff/) – Senior Networking Software Engineer at Apple and IEEE Technical Editor; member of AES
- Jessie Forgues (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesseforgues/) – Senior Engineer at Gibson. Previously a Principal Engineer of the Avid S3L system.
- Rob Silfvast (https://www.linkedin.com/in/robsilfvast/) – Hardware and Systems Engineering at Apple; developer of many parts of the Avid S3L AVB internals


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