Something (not) worth looking at...

[Curtin, Steven D (Steven)]

I've asked about things like this.  I've had so much fun with PLDs I keep
hoping that something like this will come out in analog, but the analog IC
designers tell me that many people have tried this and all have failed,
since the noise from having all those analog components so close to one
another completely swamps whatever circuit you're trying to make.  This
sounds like the name of the Motorola device that was cancelled last year.
We use DSPs for making modems, not something like this.

Steve C

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> From: 	Paul Perry[SMTP:pfperry at melbpc.org.au]
> Sent: 	Thursday, April 01, 1999 10:03 AM
> To: 	Gene Zumchak
> Cc: 	synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl
> Subject: 	Re: Something (not) worth looking at...
> 
> At 08:55 AM 1/04/99 -0500, Gene Zumchak  wrote:
> >    You can easily make op amps, comparators, v to f converters, filters,
> >switches  ...
> >for about a quarter an op amp.  Who needs 20 op amps for $16?  There is
> no
> >transconductance element in the aray.  Nothing is really controllable
> that
> I can
> >see.  
> 
> well I was thinking more about not having to wire everything, and as I
> said the 
> CD rom was missing from the mags sent to Australia so I never got a
> detailed
> look..
> but, the question arises: what ARE they intended for?
> I thought people made modems from them, for example....
> >>
> >> paul perry Frostwave P/L Melbourne Australia
>