This ReadMe file for the Apple USB Audio Drivers on OS X contains a brief overview of the files this directory: AppleUSBAudioEngine contains the classes AppleUSBAudioEngine which inherits from IOAudioEngine. This class is responsible for streaming the audio. It sets up the framelists and requests DMA IO from the IOUSBInterface and IOUSBFindEndpointRequest, using IOUSBLowLatencyIsocFrame and IOUSBDevRequest, then receives completion from IOUSBCompletion.