Sexy-thing (WAS: Re: [sdiy] super cheap synthisizers)

[Batz Goodfortune]

Y-ellow Y'all.

At 03:10 AM 6/12/02 +0200, Theo wrote:
>Phillip,


>I just checked the specs of the Dallas part.
>It DOES have the two 16bit timers I wanted, actually it got 3 of them :)
>Still, there are DSP available with more power for less...

Two things here I'm curious about. I'd never seen this new 8051 derivative 
but it looks like just the thing I'd want to have children with. Is it 
really that expensive? (I bet my device programmer won't touch it with a 
ten foot cro probe)

And there are DSPs that cheap these days??? Wow!

I'm not sure what the status is bang for buck wise but there are other 
considerations I'd take into account these days before proclaiming the 
above. And I'm not sure what the costs and details of the DSPs you had in 
mind are but...

The last time I looked, DSPs were still massively parallel bussed beasts in 
a g'zilliong pin quad flat packs requiring more tentacles than calamari 
processing plant. Where as a uC is generally mean and lean. Having on-board 
everything and including FLASH RAM and really cool stuff these days.

Parts count and pin count are important to me but I'm wondering if there 
isn't  some kind of kick-ass DSP out there these days that has all you can 
eat for 10 bux?

Ideally I guess it would be low pin count, have I2S and possibly S/PDIF 
I/o. (Logical S/PDIF even if not directly electrically compatible) On-board 
FLASH, A chunk of RAM and a bag of fries.

Does such an embedded friendly device exist? Or are still at the stage 
where we need to hook up a g'zillion pins to a bunch of support chips with 
critical timing and cost blow out?

Thanks in advance.

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