
Cirrus Logic
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