
PCI Dolby® Digital Live Sound Chip
CMI8768+ Datasheet Rev. 1.0
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1. Features
The global first 8CH single sound chip supporting Dolby® Digital Live 5.1
(AC-3) real-time interactive content encoder
Full-duplex e mbedded 8CH DAC/2CH ADC
Supports 96K/24bit playback; 48K/16bit recording
CE level high-quality Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR)~ 100dB
Integrated S/PDIF transmitter supports 44.1k/48k/96KHz sample-rate and
16/24bits resolution
PCI Rev. 2.2 compliant with bus mastering modes
Supports the latest Dolby® Digital EX and DTS® ES 6.1/7.1CH DVD
soundtrack playback
Two S/PDIF inputs for optical and coaxial connectors individually
Built-in earphone buffer at Front-Out pins (32Ω loading)
One GPIO (General purpose I/O) support
External EEPROM Interface for SID R/W purpose
Supports MPU401 MIDI UART port
DirectSound™ 3 HW acceleration compliant
Power On/Off anti-pop circuit reference design
ACPI compliant power down management
Zoomed Video Port support
Industrial standard QFP-128 package
Almost pin-to-pin compatible with CMI8738 series
Digital power = 3.3V & 5V, Analog power = 5V
Valuable S/W:
Dolby® Digital Live 5.1 (AC-3) real-time interactive content encoder
converting all digital audio sources (game audio, MP3, VCD, WMA, …) into 5.1ch
Dolby® Digital stream through S/PDIF output interface
C-Media Xear 3D™ 7.1 Virtual Speaker SHIFTER technology
Interesting Magic VoiceTM feature to disguise users’ voice tone in all IP phones
(Skype, MSN, Yahoo,…), online games, messenger, and Internet
DJ/broadcasting applications
Unique Karaoke functionality: Mic Echo, Key-shifting, Vocal Cancellation
CRL3D® HRTF 3D positional sound enhancement from Sensaura® supporting
multi-drive 7.1, EnvironmentFX, ZoomFX, MacroFX, etc.
Supports most industrial standards of PC 3D sound for gaming, including EAX™
1.0&2.0, A3D™ 1.0, and DirectSound™ 3 SW
10-band Equalizer with 12 preset modes; 27 global environment effects
Support 7.1 CH digital audio playback for WinXP, 2K, ME, 98SE (Microsoft®
DirectX V.9.0 above is required)
WinCE driver and Linux OSS driver available (w/o DDLive)