[sdiy] Making an 8038 not suck

[Antti Huovilainen]

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Aaron Lanterman wrote:

> One of my students is interested in playing around with the ICL8038. I'd be
> interested in doing something useful since there is a ton of them sitting
> around in a random drawer in one of the labs that hasn't been touched in ages,
> probably.
> 
> I know they have a limited sweep range, and inherently linear control, and

I assume you mean nonlinear?

Something that surprises me is the lack of people doing MCU controlled 
designs. In such design any nonlinearities in VCO and VCF control can be 
trivially compensated for and V/Hz is not a problem either.

Antti

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