DESCRIPTION

The CS4610/11 is a high performance audio accelerator for the PCI bus. This device, combined with application and driver software, provides a complete system solution for hardware acceleration of Windows 95 DirectSound, DirectSound3D, DirectInput, DirectShow, and Wavetable Synthesis.

FEATURES

■ High Performance PCI Audio Accelerator

— Powerful RAM-based SLIMD™ DSP core provides high task concurrency and maximum flexibility

— Efficient bus mastering PCI interface minimizes host loading

— DMA engine with hardware scatter-gather manages up to 96 simultaneous audio/data streams

■ Flexible Digital Audio Interface Design

— Direct Connection to CS423x Codec

— Simple expansion to 6 audio output channels

— Direct Connection to CS4297 AC’97 Codec

■ Complete Solution including DSP Software and Windows 95® drivers

— Acceleration of DirectSound®, DirectSound3D®, DirectInput™, and DirectShow™ APIs

— High Quality HRTF-Based 3D Positional Sound

— General MIDI Wavetable Synthesis with Reverb and Chorus

— Dolby® AC-3® (5.1 channel) and MPEG-2 Audio Decoding (CS4610 only) with speaker virtualization