On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:05:57 -0700 Mark Goldberg <marklgoldberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > It is very unlikely FPGAs will be used on motherboards - motherboards are in mass production to justify usage of off the shelf ASICs. FPGAs are more expensive "per functionality". Regards, Sergei. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
