On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Business Kid <business.kid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm never met the VT 1818 in the wild. I was in Electronics hardware > > /begin long winded explanation > The way things are done today is with large chips called fpgas. Inside them > is stuff representing hardware circuits, so you can have a pile of chips in > there. So all the 20 or so ics on a hard drive is now in 3 or 4 fpgas. The > VT1818 is probably cobbled up just for putting in fpgas. > /end long winded explanation It is a CODEC chip from VIA, designed onto motherboards: http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/audio/codecs/vt1818s/index.jsp I believe it is the chip to the right of the audio jacks and you can see it on the motherboard I bought if you look at the image viewer on this page: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131618 So, it sure seems that there is a physical chip there. I think the SB talks to it, with some of the audio functions in the SB and the actual audio I/O on the VT1818S. I am a hardware engineer and have products with FPGAs, DSPs, CODECS and other parts working together, but in that case I understand how it all plays. I don't have any experience with computer motherboard design. So, hopefully the docs will be updated or someone will pipe up with the magic module options to make it work. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
