(1) (
Advanced
Wave
Effects) A Creative Labs brand for its Sound Blaster cards. See
Sound Blaster.
(2) (
Address
Windowing
Extensions) A Microsoft Windows programming interface (API) that allows an application to use more memory than it has reserved within its own address space. If a 32-bit operating system is used, and the application reaches beyond the 4GB limit, AWE uses the CPU's Physical Address Extension (see
PAE).