SANTA CLARA, Calif. ” For engineers designing digital audio systems, choosing the right audio codec isn't always a straightforward exercise. A sampling of different audio technologies-MP3, Dolby AC-3, ...

The history of digital signal processing has moved from dedicated DSP chips to FPGAs. Now Intel CPUs are handling the processing duties for some live mixing boards, aided by simple operating systems ...

A digital revolution is under way in audio. It began with digital mastering, analog-input Class-D amplifiers, and the CD, but the momentum is increasing. Today, partially digital systems are common, ...

Tokyo, August 9, 2005 −− Renesas Technology Corp. today announced four SH7261 high-performance microcontroller models, incorporating the 32-bit RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) microcontroller ...

Audio processing originally was used to comply with FCC regulations concerning over-modulation. However, through the years, processing has been used more often to “tailor” a station’s sound over the ...

Audio enhancements in Windows 11 can cause a variety of issues, from audio delays to worse sound quality. It's time to turn ...

For broadcast, production and post facilities requiring high-quality signal processing and analog-to-digital (or digital-to-analog) conversion in a small package, Leitch has introduced the NEO ...

Why the arrival of GPU-based audio is an inflection point that David Shapton reckons could be as pivotal as when MIDI rewrote the rulebook in the early 1980s. Audio on a GPU? Wait, what? GPUs are for ...

Those who started in our field fewer than ten years ago probably don’t remember a time when there wasn’t a streamed version of your radio station available online. When streaming media first became of ...

If you can find one, the new STA333IS digital audio chip and power amplifier from STMicroelectronics (STM) offers a quick and easy solution for converting digital audio into a 10 watt/channel stereo ...

The traditional view is that the floating-point number format is superior to the fixed-point number format when it comes to representing sound digitally. In fact, while it may be counter-intuitive, ...