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Basically, AC’97 CODEC is the standard structure of PCI sound card. As we know, computer is digital-based, but music is based on
analog-based. Therefore, there must be a process to turn digital into analog during the last stage processing of sound in computer.
Hence, the component on sound card that play this important task is what we called CODEC.
Audio CODEC 97 (briefly called AC’97) is the specification regulated by Intel, and it’s about the structure of audio conversion. The
special place about CODEC is that it is separated from sound card (CODEC is an independent chipset). Therefore, PCI sound card
could possess with 90db and do other application process as well. We called CODEC that meets this structure AC’97 CODEC.
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ACPI is the power management specification of PC97 (1997). It intends to save more power by taking full control of power management
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Building on the PC motherboard riser architecture, ACR slot is backward compatible with AMR but beyond the limitation of it. The ACR
specification is designed to support modem, audio, Local Area Network (LAN) and Digital Subscriber Line (DSL).
