Philips PSC805 Aurilium: Cost-effective Top Of The Range? Continued

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Philips PSC805 Aurilium
Interface USB 1.1
Audio chip "Latice LCD4064 Philips UDA1338H"
Maximum playback 96 kHz
Digital-analog conversion 24 bits
MIDI / game port no
Power USB
Inputs
Card line, mic
Outputs
Card lines 3x3.5mm jack (5.1), 1x S/PDIF optical, 1x S/PDIF coaxial, 1x headphone
DVD and Cinema
Standards 5.1
Configuration up to 5.1
DVD Audio no
3D Gaming Audio
Standards DS3D, EAX 1 and 2
Configuration 2x 5.1
MIDI
Connections none
Software synthesizer Microsoft
Minimum System Requirements
Processor 350 MHz minimum
Memory 64 MB, depending on OS
Interface USB 1.1
OS Windows 2000 / XP

The heart of the Aurilium is a Lattice LC4064 CPLD (complex programmable logical device) and a Philips 24 bit codec with four input channels plus a special one for vocals and six output channels. The AD converters can work up to 100kHz (50kHz for the vocal channel) and the DA converters up to 200kHz. But, though the Aurilium is described in some documents as a USB 2.0 card, we had the surprise of discovering a TI TUSB3200 USB 1.1 controller. So it is a USB 1.1 card, evidently compatible with USB 2.0, without being one... This confusion should have been avoided.


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