[sdiy] Direct Digital Synthesis (was: integrator / capacitor leakage)

[James Patchell]

What I plan on doing is using a Spartan 3 FPGA with a CS4385 8 channel 
DAC.  The parts are not all that expensive...(but you need to put them on a 
multilayer board...which is).

At 08:30 PM 12/6/2005 +0000, Richard Wentk wrote:
>At 19:26 06/12/2005, Aaron Lanterman wrote:
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>>Wow, look at the price on those chips! Seems like major overkill... you 
>>pay for those megahertz.
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>Well, I'd guess these are really for the commercial signal generator 
>market. You'd be mad to use them in a synth design, because there are much 
>cheaper and more versatile ways (with better bit depths) that can do AF 
>synthesis.
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>Richard
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         -Jim
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