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Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI 128

PCI Audio Card Hardware Applications

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Table of Contents

REVISION HISTORY..................................................................................................................................2

INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................................................................4

SB AUDIOPCI 128 CONFIGURATIONS..................................................................................................5

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS.......................................................................................................................5

SB AUDIOPCI 128 SERIES FEATURES................................................................................................5

IGITIZED SOUNDS

D S

YNTHESIZED MUSIC

OMMUNICATIONS INTERFACE

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Telephone Answering Device (TAD) interface.............................................................................................. 6

REATIVE STEREO DIGITAL

MIDI I

NTERFACE

DVANCED WAVE TABLE SYNTHESIS

AMPLING SUBSYSTEM

3D A

UDIO TECHNOLOGY

OYSTICK PORT

SPDIF I I

NTERFACE

NPUTS AND OUTPUTS

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NALOG MIXER

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ES1373 INTEGRATED AUDIO CHIP - GENERAL DESCRIPTION....................................................8

POWER MANAGEMENT...........................................................................................................................9

ES1373 INTEGRATED AUDIO CHIP - BLOCK DIAGRAM...............................................................10

SB AUDIOPCI 128 – ES1373 SERIES CONNECTIONS AND JUMPERS ..........................................11

ADAPTER CABLE FOR S/PDIF FEATURE..........................................................................................12

INTERNAL CONNECTORS - PIN ASSIGNMENTS.............................................................................13

CD A

UDIO CONNECTORS

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SB AUDIOPCI 128 – ES1373 SERIES SPECIFICATIONS....................................................................14

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Introduction

This document is intended to provide a complete technical description of the features and

specifications of the Sound Blaster AudioPCI 128 is a PCI audio chipset solution from the Ensoniq division of Creative Technology Ltd. The Sound Blaster



AudioPCI 128 along with an AC97 CODEC offers the next generation



AudioPCI 128 advanced PCI audio cards. The SB

of audio performance in a PC while maintaining full legacy compatibility without old ISA bus solutions.

The Sound Blaster



AudioPCI 128 utilizes the ES1373 PCI audio chip sold in the OEM

market. SB AudioPCI 128 is a PC99 compliant incorporating 3D Audio technology from Creative which immerses users in 3D audio space. What's more, the ES1373 supports 3D Positional Audio, Environmental Audio Extension (EAX) for DirectSound and DirectSound3D, and custom OEM configuration options for CDDA. In addition, Creative’s 3D Audio technology dramatically improve s so und c la rit y, spa tia l r ea lism and sound e ffect s, t hro ugh the minimizatio n o f crosstalk, which will dynamically adjust for monophonic or stereophonic input without user intervention.

The SB AudioPCI 128 series is fully Plug and Play compliant for ease of use in either DOS,

Windows

Millennium, Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT applications.

SB AudioPCI 128 provides General MIDI compatibility at an attractive price point. It provides a professional audio solution for today’s newest generation of game, music and entertainment software. SB AudioPCI 128 also adds support for General Sound drum kit samples and cuttingedge positional 3D audio for true spatial localization of sounds and complies with the Roland MT-32 standard for wave table audio. It is fully compliant with Multimedia PC Level 3 specifications and with Microsoft

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Multimedia extensions for Windows.

The CT5801 model of the SB AudioPCI 128 adds the capability of a SPDIF output. This

output is shared with the Line-out, and has an audio sensing circuit to determine if the cable plugged into the jack is for analog or digital output. Details of the internal connection and SPDIF cable specifications can be found on pages 12 and 13 of this document.

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SB AudioPCI 128 Configurations

SB AudioPCI 128 Series is fully configurable as a professional quality audio. The features shown in the table below are described in detail in the following section of this document. SB AudioPCI 128 Series is available in the following configuration:

Model Config Host

ES1373 SB

AudioP

CI

128

Key: Host RAM - Uses system memory SPDIF - provides output connection to a DAC receiver (ie DAT machine)

2,4,8 MB

Ram

Sound

Sets

!!!!!

3D Sound,

Reverb,

Chorus

Power

Amp

AuxInTADInCD

Bus

Audio

Master

PCI

System Requirements

In order to install the SB AudioPCI 128 Series, the target system has to meet the following minimum requirements:

1. Plug and Play ready Pentium and AMD-K5 90 MHz, or 100% compatible system

2. 16MB RAM

3. 10MB free hard disk space

4. VGA display required

5. Windows Operating System

6. Available PCI slot

Millennium, Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT

SPDIF

PCI

Compa

tible

SB AudioPCI 128 Series Features

Digitized Sounds

Sound Blaster 16 compatible.

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• AC97 CODEC supporting stereo sampling 48kHz (Fixed); Multiple sample rate support

• Recording source: microphone, stereo line-in, CD-audio, video, modem or multiple source

recording.

• PCI Bus Master for fast DMA

Advanced 16-bit software-based real time audio compression/decompression system with the

•

following standards:

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