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Sorry.
Let me go more in depth here: both out of boredom and for general education.
More specifically this has a single I/O controller and a SOC chip. This board is a bit dated (regardless of date stamp). A leftover stamping.
The I/O handles turning machine code into standard commands and the SOC will handle everything else on the binary level.
The third IC experienced users will notice is the DAC. It’s a fraud.
That’s a stripped down decoder in the C or E class.
Ignoring any drive attached to it this is a VERY high end CD-RW or low end DVD-RAM board. It depends 100% on the computer to do all conversion.
More elitist techs and most hackers call this a flub chip because it’s redundant in real world use. By 1999 when it was first used any PII or K62 could more than handle what it was suppose to do (in software) and in the computing world it’s an added expense that jacked the cost of disc players and recorders. That chip adds $6 in royalties to the drive in patents!!!!!!!
For something everyone could do with a 100% free and legal codec package.
So that $30 cost DVD ram drive sold at $99 becomes $129 because it “has an on-board hardware decoder!”
Woohoo. As the old internet adage goes “I want what I want: take my money”!
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