Sound Blaster AWE32

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sound Blaster AWE32 is an ISA sound card from Creative Technology. It is an add-on board for PCs. The AWE32, introduced in March 1994, was a nearly full-length ISA card, measuring 14 inches (356 mm) in length. It needed to be this large due to the number of features included -- the most available at the time -- manufacturing technology did not allow for a cost feasible implementation integrating all of the functions into a smaller number of chips. The AWE32 included two distinct audio sections; one being the Creative digital audio section with their audio codec and optional CSP/ASP chip socket, and the second being the E-mu MIDI synthesizer section. The synthesizer section consisted of the EMU8000 synthesizer and effects processor chip, 1 MiB EMU8011 sample ROM, and a variable amount of RAM (none on the SB32, 512 KiB on the AWE32; RAM was expandable to 28 MiB on both cards).