This document defines the audio and music data transmission protocol as an instance of a
real-time data transmission protocol standardized in IEC 61883-1. The audio and music
data transmission protocol (hereafter referred to as the A/M protocol) can be applied to all
modules or devices which have any kind of audio and/or music data processing, generation
and conversion function blocks.
This specification deals only with the transmission of audio and music data; the control,
status and machine readable description of these modules or devices should be defined
outside of this specification according to each application area.
All modules or devices which implement this A/M protocol should have the capability of
"arbitrated short bus reset" defined in IEEE P1394a in order to prevent the interruption of
audio and music data transmission when a bus reset occurs.