The Microcontroller Technologies Group of Motorola Inc yesterday PC Media, a hardware and software technology for multimedia personal computing. It is designed to overcome the problem and cost of applying a range of add- in peripherals such as data and voice communications and audio and entertainment, into a limited number of slots on a personal […]
The Microcontroller Technologies Group of Motorola Inc yesterday PC Media, a hardware and software technology for multimedia personal computing. It is designed to overcome the problem and cost of applying a range of add- in peripherals such as data and voice communications and audio and entertainment, into a limited number of slots on a personal computer. It is based on Motorola’s 24-bit DSP 56000 family of signal processors and provides the software necessary to integrate into the Microsoft Corp operating system. It supports Microsoft’s Telephony Application Program Interface. PC Media includes third party software from Centigram Communications Inc which provided its Truvoice text to speech software; Motorola Codex contributed modem technology support; DSP Group Inc provided its Truespeech speech compression technology and Peavey Electronics Corp of Meridian, Mississippi provided multimedia technology including 32 voice synthesis with 16-bit instrument wavetables and general MIDI musical instrument digital interface support. Motorola will not be offering PC Media-based products as such but is providing a PC Media Developer’s Kit to supply hardware manufacturers and software developers with tools to deliver PC Media-based systems and software. The Kit includes a developers board, demonstration task and application software, a C compiler, assembler-linker and command converter. The PC Media Developers Kit will be generally available in the third quarter at a cost of $7,500. In addition, Peavey Electronics says it will be providing PC Media based products in later this quarter.
