Yamaha YM3014B
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The YM3014B, aka DAC-SS, is a floating point
digital-to-analog converter
chip developed by Yamaha. It generates one analog output (16-bit dynamic range) from a single serial input, the sound data containing a 10-bit mantissa and 3-bit exponent. It was featured alongside many Yamaha sound synthesis chips, including the YM2203
and YM3812
.
Floating point
In computing, floating point describes a method of representing real numbers in a way that can support a wide range of values. Numbers are, in general, represented approximately to a fixed number of significant digits and scaled using an exponent. The base for the scaling is normally 2, 10 or 16...
digital-to-analog converter
Digital-to-analog converter
In electronics, a digital-to-analog converter is a device that converts a digital code to an analog signal . An analog-to-digital converter performs the reverse operation...
chip developed by Yamaha. It generates one analog output (16-bit dynamic range) from a single serial input, the sound data containing a 10-bit mantissa and 3-bit exponent. It was featured alongside many Yamaha sound synthesis chips, including the YM2203
Yamaha YM2203
The YM2203, aka OPN , is a six-channel sound chip developed by Yamaha. It's the progenitor of Yamaha's OPN family of FM synthesis chips used in many videogame and computer systems throughout the 1980s and early 1990s...
and YM3812
Yamaha YM3812
The Yamaha YM3812 also known as the OPL2 is a sound chip created by Yamaha Corporation in 1985 and famous for its wide use in IBM PC-based sound cards such as the AdLib and Sound Blaster.It is backwards compatible with the OPL aka YM3526, to which it is very similar – in fact, it only adds 3 new...
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