[sdiy] FPAA's

[John Speth]

> Anyhow, just a 3am thought.  I think maybe the
> Anadigm stuff is worth a more
> serious look but for narrower applications.

We have an Anadigm eval board here at work that I
played with for a few days a few years ago.  I
concluded the exact same thing you state above.  While
I was using one of their smallish FPAAs at the time, I
found that you can quickly run out of chip resources
if you don't think carefully ahead.  Also the
performance specs for their building block components
aren't nearly as good as discrete parts.  I guess
that's what the eval board will teach you.

Naturally, I tried to make a synth and synth building
blocks but didn't get very far (crappy tools, not
enough time).  And I learned that Anadigm was pushing
a press release that stated that you can "soon buy" a
Prophet-5 style synth core based on a few FPAAs.  When
I spoke to the FAE about getting some more info, I was
told that I'll have to wait to see the final product
but the source for the system will not be made public.
 I never heard anymore of the synth.  Maybe they did
it, maybe they didn't.

JJS


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