[sdiy] What other chips to list?

[Aaron Lanterman]

I've started to put together a page intended as a resource for Tech
students interested in doing synth-diy stuff for our Senior Design class,
among other things:

users.ece.gatech.edu/~lanterma/sdiy

Of course, I hope this can be useful to the DIY community in general.b

I've listed some OTAs, Nortons, "universal filters" (MAX274/MAX275,
LTC1563/1562, Burr-Brown UAF42 - anyone have any experience at making
these voltage controlled?), and chips that seem like they might be useful
for making VCO.

Two questions:

1) Am I listing any chips that totally suck that I should take _off_ the
list?

2) Any other chips in those categories I should list? (Note I'm avoiding
listing CEM/SSM/CA3080/anything else that's out of production.)

3) I'm starting to collect DAC data sheets for control-voltage purposes.
So far, the MCP4921/4922 12-bit and the TC1321 10-bit and the
TL5608/5610/5629 (12, 10, and 8 bit) look pretty interesting and worth
listing. (One was recommend by Paul S., but I can't remember which one
now - actually,m I think it was the TL series, since they're 8-output, so
you don't need external demuxes and such.) Any other favorites that I
should list, and more to the point, get for student use? (assume they'll
be using PIC microcontrollers, which we have a ton of and use in a lot of
our courses)

After 12 years of being a theoretician, it's kinda fun looking at data
sheets again...

- Aaron

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