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Chips in the series
28 related topics
Products using the OPL series
16 related topics
Internal operation
8 related topics
Variants and derivatives
4 related topics
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Overview
- Sound chips Sound chip
- Yamaha Yamaha Corporation
- FM synthesis Frequency modulation synthesis
- Sound cards
- IBM PC compatibles IBM PC compatible
- AdLib Ad Lib, Inc.
- Sound Blaster 16 Sound Blaster
- Wavetable synthesis
- PCMCIA
- Creative Technology
- ESS Technology
Internal operation
- Direct digital synthesis
- Low-frequency oscillator
- Envelope generator
- Word Word (data type)
- Read-only memory
- Log-transformed Logarithm
- Exponential function
- Least significant byte Least significant bit
Chips in the series
- Y8950 Yamaha Y8950
- MSX
- ADPCM
- Write-only registers Write-only register
- Sine waves Sine wave
- ADSR envelope generator
- Phase modulation
- Floating point
- Digital-to-analog converter
- YM2151
- YM2203
- Tremolo
- Vibrato
- Oscillator sync
- Backwards compatible Backward compatibility
- YM2413 Yamaha YM2413
- Decapsulated Decapping
- Die Die (integrated circuit)
- Yamaha DX100 Yamaha DX100 (synthesizer)
- Latency Latency (engineering)
- Composite sine mode Additive synthesis
- Sound Blaster Pro
- Sound Blaster 16
- Pro AudioSpectrum cards Media Vision
- Microsoft
- Windows Sound System cards Windows Sound System
- YMF278 Yamaha YMF278
- YMF7xx
Products using the OPL series
- Commodore 64
- Arcade games Arcade game
- Terra Cresta
- Bubble Bobble
- IBM PC
- Sound cards Sound card
- AdLib
- Pro AudioSpectrum (8bit) Media Vision Pro AudioSpectrum
- Nichibutsu
- Toaplan
- Sega Master System Master System
- Atari
- SNK
- Alpha Denshi
- Tecmo
- Moonsound
Variants and derivatives
- Open-source Open source
- RTL Register-transfer level
- SystemVerilog
- FPGA
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Map overview Semantic statistics
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Nodes73
Edges72
Triples23
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.027397
Components1
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Yamaha OPL
Top relations
related to OPL3-SA, DS-XG, OPL4 · 9
Yamaha OPL → OPL4, PC, PCI YMF724/74x, See YMF7xx, Yamaha OPL YMF715B-S, Yamaha YMF718/719S, Yamaha's, YMF262's FM, YMF278
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Important terminology
sound fm chips chip ymf262 used yamaha mode ym3812 synthesis opl opl3 output also channels cards series dac two one
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| the AdLib | instance of | music and video game applications.The OPL series of chips enabled the creation of affordable sound cards for IBM PC compatibles in the late 1980s | 0.80 | text |
| Sound Blaster | instance of | music and video game applications.The OPL series of chips enabled the creation of affordable sound cards for IBM PC compatibles in the late 1980s | 0.80 | text |
| effectively becoming a de-facto standard until they were supplanted by | instance of | music and video game applications.The OPL series of chips enabled the creation of affordable sound cards for IBM PC compatibles in the late 1980s | 0.80 | text |
| the YM2151 | instance of | This DAC chip was also used on other FM chips | 0.80 | text |
| YM2203.Overview of a channel's registers | instance of | This DAC chip was also used on other FM chips | 0.80 | text |
| the Yamaha DX100.The following features were added | instance of | similar to contemporary consumer synthesizer keyboards of the time | 0.80 | text |
| the specially-made YAC512.The YMF262 was used in the revised Sound Blaster Pro | instance of | requiring an external DAC chip | 0.80 | text |
| Sound Blaster 16 | instance of | requiring an external DAC chip | 0.80 | text |
| AdLib Gold | instance of | requiring an external DAC chip | 0.80 | text |
| Media Vision’s Pro AudioSpectrum cards | instance of | requiring an external DAC chip | 0.80 | text |
| and Microsoft’s Windows Sound System cards | instance of | requiring an external DAC chip | 0.80 | text |
| the AdLib | instance of | was used in the MSX computer as an optional expansion.The YM3812 saw wide use in IBM PC-based sound cards | 0.80 | text |
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