The Industry Standard Architecture of a 16-bit sound card
on December 23rd, 2011 at 12:47 pmThe voice in your computer that you know when you receive new e-mail is made possible with sound card. Appearances before the sound card, personal computers were limited to beeps from a small speaker on the motherboard. In the late ’80s, sound cards started working in computer multimedia and computer games led to a whole different level. In 1989, Creative Labs introduced the Sound Blaster sound card Creative Labs ®. Since then, many other companies have introduced sound cards and Creative SoundBlaster cards continued to improve. Anatomy of a sound card sound cards includes: A digital signal processor (DSP) that controls the computation · A digital-analog converter (ADC) to enter into calculating its audio read-only memory (ROM) or flash memory for storage · data musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…