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ESS Technology, Inc.
DESCRIPTION
The ES3986 digital-audio processor chip is ESS Technology’s highly integrated, optimal-quality, and costeffective single-chip solution for the emerging digital-audio market. Its target applications include internet audio platforms, MP3 CD players in boom box and combination systems, portable MP3 CD player, etc. Based on the programmable multimedia processor (PMP) architecture, the ES3986 integrates softwareconfigurable 32-bit reduced instruction set computing (RISC) processor and a 64-bit vector processor core. The RISC CPU can be used in place of a microcontroller to provide the functions of system management, user interface, and peripheral control. The vector processor is dedicated for audio-specific processing.