MYKERINOS - High Performance PCI and PCIe Audio Card

 

 MYKERINOS

 

Merging's Mykerinos mothercard is a high performance 32 bit floating point Digital Audio PCI/PCIe Card with digital mixing and effects processing powered by Philips Trimedia/Nexperia VLIW processor.

One core feature of Mykerinos’ architecture is to break it into two parts: the portion that plugs into the PCI connector of the PC and the I/O daughter card that contains the physical connectors to the outside world. This allows for potentially many system applications without committing the design to any specific I/O configurations.

 Mykerinos/Myk-X Features Overview

 
Mykerinos is Merging's answer to create a leading edge high performance audio processing card solution. It builds upon over 10 years of experience designing and manufacturing PC based Audio Cards and incorporates hundreds of users feedbacks into a compact flexible fourth generation solution.

Here is a summary of features:

  • Driver support for Windows XP/Vista

  • Support for all sampling rates from 32 kHz up to 192 kHz, as well as DSD and DXD (Runs at 2.8882MHz (DSD), 384, 352.8 (DXD), 192, 176.4, 128, 96, 88.2, 64, 48, 44.1 and 32 kHz in 16, 24 and 32 bits encompassing all needed formats for SACD, Blu-Ray, DVD-A, DVD, HD-CD, CD and more.).

  • Open Plug-In (all C-code) architecture supporting Surround-sound and DVD formats

  • Highly flexible modular I/O architecture can be tailored to user's needs by the use of dedicated daughter boards including ADAT, AES/EBU, SDIF, TDIF and/or MADI formats within the form factor of a single half length PCI slot. This I/O modularity offers a unique opportunity to meet a wide range of market requirements

  • Current Audio I/O daughter card options include ADAT - S/PDIF, MADI, AES/EBU, AES/EBU II, TDIF, SDIF and DUAL

  • Very high performance card capable of high track playback (up to 64 tracks) and vast I/O capabilities (up to 64 channels)

  • Multiple cards interconnected through XDTDM (eXtreme Definition Time Domain Multiplex) bus with support of up to 512
    audio channels

  • Built-in SMPTE/EBU timecode reader/generator including LTC and VITC with timecode insertion in a video window. Great for video Post-production.

  • Ultra low jitter clock, with lock to Video (Auto detect PAL/NTSC), HDTV (all common rates), Audio, Wordclock or Internal, answers all Audio for Video requirements.

  • On board Sync Connector, which includes Video Sync I/O supporting PAL, NTSC and all trilevel HDTV rates and LTC
    reader and generator.

  • Very cost effective.

Mykerinos specific:

  • PCI V2.1 compliant. Supports both 5 Volts and 3.3 Volts PCI environments

  • Based on 2nd generation Philips Trimedia 32 bit floating point processing VLIW technology

  • High Performance (upto > 400 MFlops sustained, 800 MB/s SDRAM interface, etc.)

  • Extremely low latency processing (typical 2.7 ms at 48kHz), ideal for live events, dubbing, re-recording and voice-overs.

  • 2 channel 24 bit 96 kHz on-board monitoring output

Mykerinos-X specific:

  • PCI Express v1.0a, full x1 PCI Express throughput

  • Based on 3rd generation Philips Nexperia 32 bit floating point processing VLIW technology

  • High Performance (up to > 600 MFlops sustained, 1600 MB/s DDR SDRAM interface, etc.)

  • Extremely low latency processing (down to 1.3 ms at 48kHz), ideal for live events, dubbing, re-recording and voice-overs.

  • 2 channel 24 bit 192 kHz on-board monitoring output, a DSD monitoring is also available.