Hi,Prachi,
Thanks for your patience. I am sorry for my misunderstanding.
Now I understand your concern.
1.You are right, the processor will receive the 6 mono channel TDM data from the SDOUT pin of Slave #1.
2.if the CLK of slave 2 is not present,there I think the processor can't have the data of slave1 and slave2. Because the TDM can't work without CLK.
3.if the CLK is right,but just lose the data of slave 2,the processor will have slave 1 and slave 3 data. Slave 3 can find the their own slot by countig the clk,so we must make sure the clk is right.Then it will be no impact to the next sub frame.
Thanks,
Flora Wang