The YM3016, aka DAC-GS, is a floating point

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 stereo analog output (16-bit dynamic range) from either a two-channel serial or a 16-bit binary/two's complement

Two's complement

The two's complement of a binary number is defined as the value obtained by subtracting the number from a large power of two...

 input, the sound data containing a 10-bit mantissa and 7-bit exponent. It was featured alongside many Yamaha sound synthesis chips, including the YM2608

Yamaha YM2608

thumb|right|Yamaha YM2608YM2608, aka OPNA, is a sixteen-channel sound chip developed by Yamaha. It's a member of Yamaha's OPN family of FM synthesis chips, and the successor to the YM2203...

 and YM2610

Yamaha YM2610

YM2610, aka OPNB, is a fifteen-channel sound chip developed by Yamaha. It's a member of Yamaha's OPN family of FM synthesis chips, and related to the YM2608...

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