Analog Devices Soundmax digital processing is done by the host processor with special code to provide sophisticated software DSP. The basic idea behind the AC97 integration is exactly the same as with software modems where part of the workload of the modem is done by the host processor. SoundMAX 3. While the PCI bus had the necessary bandwidth for handling multiple wave channels, sound cards continued to have considerably higher costs. After the development of Analog Devices Soundmax clocked processors,[…]
