Digital DIY in ASIC, the cheap way

Harry Bissell harrybissell at prodigy.net
Mon Sep 25 05:36:25 CEST 2000


I use ASIC in my synth designs everyday...

I like the "operational transconductance amplifier" ASIC a lot !!!

Now ya' wanna hear something REALLY scary...

TUBE ASICs !!!

lol
H^)

Magnus Danielson wrote:

> From: patchell <patchell at silcom.com>
> Subject: Re: Digital DIY in ASIC, the cheap way
> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 14:19:01 -0700
>
> >     Well, I would "NEVER" do something like that.....oh, wait, I did.
>
> Well, my point is partly that even thougth nobody would admitt doing
> it, it does happend. Also, it happends that when halfway through the
> design you suddenly realize what you have ACTUALLY done and your
> test-cases suddenly becomes more interesting ;)
>
> > Funny how the things that are purchased for projects at work also end up
> > finding their way to be used in projects.....Like compilers, device
> > programmers, etc.  Never loose an opportunity to leverage a little more
> > use out of something....
>
> Actually, for some stuff an employer should not worry about them being
> used for DIY activites, since this will only sharpen the
> engineer. Sadly few realize this.
>
> >     My last effort didn't work.  Tried to get them to start using AVR's at
> > work.  Pics won out.  Dang.
>
> You can't win them all, now can you?
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus




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