MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO, VOICE, AND DATA CODEC DEVICE HAVING MULTI MEDIA PROCESSING ACCELERATION FUNCTION AND INPUT, OUTPUT FUNCTIONS FOR PERSONAL COMPUTER

摘要

PURPOSE: A multi-channel audio/voice/data coder-decoder(CODEC) device for a personal computer(PC) is provided to have input/output functions relating to an external multi-channel audio/voice and to have data input/output functions, to control a system by a system control software which exchanges various data with a fixed storage device of the PC to accumulate application programs through the fixed storage device, and which performs control data transmissions and audio/voice/multi media data transmissions, so as to carry out various multi media processing functions. CONSTITUTION: A system control software(10) accumulates execution programs of many application programs(20) in a multi-channel audio/voice/data signal processor(30), and performs multi-channel audio/voice/multi media data processing functions. The multi-channel audio/voice/data signal processor(30) accumulates various multi-channel audio/voice/multi media data processing programs by the application programs(20), and inputs multi-channel audio/voice/multi-media data from the application programs(20), then transmits result data to the application programs(20). The signal processor(30) inputs/outputs the multi-channel audio to an exterior, and inputs/outputs a compressed audio or data to the exterior. A multi-channel audio/voice/data input and output(I/O) unit(40) comprises as follows. A multi-channel audio I/O circuit inputs and outputs the multi-channel audio and the multi-channel voice with the exterior under the control of the application programs(20). A data I/O circuit inputs and outputs compressively-coded data as a digital signal to or from the exterior by a serial interface.