[sdiy] What to do with XC4003A's

[Magnus Danielson]

From: patchell <patchell at silcom.com>
Subject: [sdiy] What to do with XC4003A's
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 20:44:24 -0700

>     Just "aquired" a couple of tubes of Xilinx XC4003A FPGA's.  I am
> trying to decide what to do with these things.  I could make a top
> octave generator out of them, I suppose.  I have always wanted to make
> some kind of an "organ".  Suppose I could also make some NCO's
> (numericly control oscilators, or phase-accumulator oscilators).
> 
>     Decisions...decisions...

Yeah... if you do the phase accumulator you got the frequency
divisions for free. Toss it through waveshaping and spurt out tones
and you could even build yourself a Hammond organ equalent... ;O)

Cheers,
Magnus