High Definition Audio for the Digital Home: Proven Techniques For Getting It Right The First Time (Computer System Design) (Paperback)

by David Roach (Author), Scott Janus (Author), Wayne Jones (Author), Donald J. MacDonald (Foreword), Amir Majidimehr (Foreword)

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The personal computer is evolving to become an integral component of the digital home. Essential to assuming this new role will be the ability to deliver high-fidelity audio that is equivalent to home entertainment system audio.

High Definition Audio for the Digital Home provides hardware and software developers a wealth of insight into all aspects of personal computer high definition audio subsystem design. From the critical considerations related to circuit board layout to overcoming challenges of audio latency.

Highlights Include:

Key concepts for successful design and implementation of high definition audio based on PC hardware and software

Complete signal path view with hardware and software layouts to understand how signals pass through the system.

Intel® High Definition Audio specification examination and explanation.

The challenges presented by digital rights management, security and copy protection.

Performance characterization and certification of high definition audio designs.

Fundamentals of audio design, audio interfaces, surround sound and signal processing.

Balancing usability, cost and audio performance.

This book tells you how to specify and build each portion of a personal computer high definition audio subsystem.

Product Details

• Paperback: 552 pages
• Publisher: Intel Press; 1ST edition (2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 097648322X
• ISBN-13: 978-0976483229
• ASIN: B0014JC7DY
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,097,799 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Book Description , October 30, 2006

By	Intel Press - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: High Definition Audio for the Digital Home: Proven Techniques for Getting It Right the First Time (Paperback)

The personal computer is evolving to become an integral component of the digital home. Essential to assuming this new role will be the ability to deliver high-fidelity audio that is equivalent to home entertainment system audio. High Definition Audio for the Digital Home provides hardware and software developers a wealth of insight into all aspects of personal computer high definition audio subsystem design. From the critical considerations related to circuit board layout to overcoming challenges of audio latency, this book tells you how to specify and build each portion of a personal computer high definition audio subsystem.

Highlights include:

- Key concepts for successful design and implementation of high definition audio based on personal computer hardware and software technologies.
- Complete signal path view with hardware and software layouts to understand how signals pass through the system and how control is handled.
- Intel® High Definition Audio specification examination and explanation.
- Unique challenges presented by laptop computers.
- Balancing usability, cost and audio performance.
- The challenges presented by digital rights management, security and copy protection.
- Performance characterization and certification of high definition audio designs.
- Fundamentals of audio design, audio interfaces, surround sound and signal processing.
- Numerous examples of potential problem areas with detailed design guidelines for maintaining audio quality from start to finish.

5.0 out of 5 stars Precious HD audio book, August 24, 2008

By	Gary Li (Portland, OR, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a rare, if not sole, book about HD audio.
HD Audio has replaced AC97 since early 2000, and gradually dominanted audio technology in PC industry. However, the books about this topic are still hard to find. MSDN is almost the sole resource for the people working in this field.
The author has profound knowledge about PC audio technologies and history, also a lot of hands-on experience in windows audio driver stack. This book covers the audio basic knowledge, HD audio architecture, both audio HW and SW implementation, and windows audio stack in both XP and Vista (Vista has dramatically re-shaped the audio stack).
The book even covers the HDMI technology, a feature the new PCs (in the past half year) adopted, but still under fast improvement.
It is a must-have book if you want to learn digial audio technologies, and especially the HD audio for windows.
I Strongly wish the publishers may work out more books in this topic.

5.0 out of 5 stars About the Authors, February 22, 2008

By	Intel Press - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

David Roach has over 20 years of PC audio design experience, having participated in the development of the first real-time MIDI synthesizers for the Macintosh and Intel x-86 architectures, first PC-based physical modeling waveguide synthesizer for Creative Labs and leading development for the Jabra Earphone(tm). Mr. Roach is currently a Senior Member of the Technical Staff for PC Audio applications at SigmaTel.

Scott Janus has over 15 years of experience in engineering audio and video solutions. He is currently an architect for Intel's media chipsets. He has enabled numerous audiovisual technologies for Intel-based platforms. Recipient of multiple patents, he is the author of Audio in the 21st Century and Video in the 21st Century.

Wayne Jones has over 30 years of engineering experience in professional audio product development and audio test and measurement applications gained from the company he founded, Amber, and with Audio Precision. Mr. Jones has served on standards committees for the Audio Engineering Society, Consumer Electronics Association and International Electrotechnical Committee. He was author of the revised AES-6id for PC Audio testing and has authored many articles and application notes on audio measurement topics.