thumb|A Conventional PCI|PCI softmodem (left) next to a conventional ISA hardware modem (right)
thumb|A Conventional PCI|PCI softmodem (left) next to a conventional ISA hardware modem (right)
A software modem, commonly referred to as a softmodem, is a modem with minimal hardware that uses software running on the host computer, and the computer's resources (especially the central processing unit, random access memory, and sometimes audio processing), in place of the hardware in a conventional modem.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).