SAA7780 Overview
The SAA7780 ThunderBird Q3DTM is a high-performance PCI audio accelerator targeting PC gaming and music applications. Developed by QSound Labs and Philips Semiconductors, it bines the most pelling 3D, quadraphonic and music synthesis technologies available with the powerful yet cost effective ActiMediaTM DSP architecture. Full H/W acceleration of DirectSoundTM, 3D audio, music synthesis, and gameport functions...
SAA7780 Key Features
- Full H/W acceleration of 64 audio sources
- 64 H/W sample fetch channels
- 64 H/W sample rate convertors
- H/W mixing of 64 streams
- H/W DSP filter/effects/music synthesis applied to 64 streams
- Concurrent processing of up to 384 audio sources
- Up to 64 DirectSound/wavetable sources processed in H/W
- 64 plus DirectSound sources processed on host
- Up to 128 total DirectSound sources
- Up to 64 3D sources