NXP Semiconductors SAA7780
The SAA7780 ThunderBird Q3DTM is a high-performance PCI audio accelerator targeting PC gaming and music applications.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
● Up to 64 H/W wavetable voices
● Up to 256 host wavetable voices
● QSound3DInteractive TM interactive positional 3D
● H/W DSP processing for maximum performance
● Stereo speaker, headphone and quad speaker algorithms
● Proprietary technology eliminates crosstalk cancellation and broadens "sweet spot"
● A3DTM compatible
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Developed by QSound Labs and Philips Semiconductors, it combines the most compelling 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 guarantees exceptional system performance.