System Board 4-17

Integrated Audio

To support the increasing number of multimedia applications, a Creative
ES1373 PCI audio chip is integrated on the system board. The chip provides
16-bit stereo, Sound Blaster Pro-compatible audio.
The sound system provides all the digital and analog mixing functions required
for playing and recording audio on personal computers. Features include stereo
analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, analog mixing, anti-aliasing
and reconstruction filters, line and microphone level inputs, digital audio
compr e ssio n, and fu ll dig ital c ontr o l of al l mixer and vo lume c ontro l funct ions .
The sound system is standard and has the following features:
Creative ES1373 chip integrated on system board
digital audio and analog mixing functions, including stereo analog-to-
digital and digital-to-analog converters, analog mixing, anti-aliasing and
reconstruction filters, line and microphone level inputs, digital audio
compression, and full digital control of mixer and volume control
functions
Adlib™, Sound Blaster Pro 2.0, Windows Sound System, and MPU-401
compatibility.
The Creative ES1373 audio chip includes a full Plug and Play interface. Each
logical device is configured into the host environment using the Plug and Play
configuration methodologies. The audio subsystem requires two DMA channels
and one interrupt.
Resources
The system memory map, I/O addresses, and DMA set t ings are given in the
following sections. System interrupt settings, parallel interrupt settings, and
serial interrupt settings are included in Section 2, “System Configuration.”