RME PCI Interface Hammerfall DSP PCI Card

RME PCI Interface Hammerfall DSP PCI Card is built on a Zero wait state PCI Busmaster core. Based on the legendary Hammerfall PCI core with its innovative zero CPU load technology the new PCI core is even more optimized for more performance. Thanks to the latest chip technology internal hi-speed RAM can be used faster and more efficient than external SRAM. The PCI card also contains 2 Sync-connectors for synchronization of multiple interfaces.

RME PCI Interface Hammerfall DSP PCI Card offers highest compatibility by being 100% Plug & Play compatible under Windows and MacOS, and being able to share interrupts. The card itself will only use one interrupt (IRQ) for all functions (audio/MIDI.) With up to 130 MB/s transfer rate in both directions the maximum performance available on the 32 bit PCI bus is used. The connection between PCI card and I/O box is established using ordinary firewire cable (IEEE 1394, 6-pole.) The data transfer does not use Firewire protocol, but RME's own proprietary bus protocol. The supplied cable is 4.5 m ( 15 ft .) long, a cable length up to 10 m ( 33 ft .) has been successfully tested. A specially designed Repeater can be used to reach cable lengths of up to 20 m ( 66 ft .) The PCI card operates as power supply for the attached I/O-box.

About Hammerfall DSP

Using the Hammerfall DSP System RME's world famous Hammerfall technology is available not only on desktop computers, but also on notebooks! It doesn't matter if Mac or PC: each portable computer having a CardBus interface can now be upgraded to a mobile High-End and high-speed audio system -- with up to 26 tracks and latencies down to 1.5 ms!

The new Hammerfall DSP System offers all its features both when used stationary or mobile: support for 96 kHz/24 bit, S/PDIF and ADAT optical, integrated mixer in TotalMix technology for complete ASIO 2.0 Direct Monitoring, independently to operate mixer desktop providing several submixes, DIGICheck in hardware for professional level metering with peak- and RMS values in broadcast quality, MIDI I/O and much more.

The Hammerfall DSP System includes fully developed and powerful drivers: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP (MME with multi-client operation, ASIO 2.0, GSIF) and MacOS (ASIO 2.0). The new hardware concept includes the possibility for hardware updates via software. Improvements and extensions of the hardware are thus possible without any problem, safety for the future (WDM, ASIO 3.0) included. Besides, the whole system supports hot-plugging. Card and I/O box can be connected or disconnected at any time without having to re-boot the computer.

RME's Hammerfall series is famous for its reliability, tremendous performance, high compatibility and the user-friendly design of hardware and drivers. The Hammerfall DSP System breaks into a new dimension of computer-based hard disk Recording, unsurpassed because of its numerous exciting functions and unique features.

Features

Short PCI 2.0 compliant PCI card

Zero wait state PCI Busmaster interface (130 MB/s transfer rate in both directions)

32-bit, 3.3 V compatible

Output: IEEE 1394 connector

Package contents: PCI card, cable 4.5 meter (15 ft) IEEE 1394, internal cable 3-pole

Specifications

100% Plug & Play compatible

Hammerfall hardware design: mono channels in block mode, organized in 32 bit ASIO double buffers

ASIO poured in hardware! 0 (zero!)% CPU load when using the maximum number of channels (52)

Byte swap for Mac included in hardware

Automatic hardware selftest when booting

Hardware update via software (virtual EPROM update)

Complete interrupt sharing