SV: [sdiy] Spin Semiconductors

[Tavys Ashcroft]

I agree that this looks very interesting.  With the AD/DA right on the
chip, you could make some very small and very versatile (and cheap?)
designs.  They don't say anywhere how much the chips cost (probably
large quantities only) nor do they give a price for their little dev
board.

The code examples in their application notes make it look like this
thing is very simple to program.  Makes me want to get one and try out
some audio mangling tricks on it.  Reverb be damned, I want to make
some strange effects!

-Tavys

On 9/20/06, asfi at eol.ca <asfi at eol.ca> wrote:
> karl dalen writes:
>
> > That chip is years old, was previously under the name AL1001!
> > Boring that they havent included the codec on the chip by now!
>
> Hello? Did you actually look at the datasheet, or are you just shooting your
> mouth off?
>
> There is A/D and D/A, though specified only to ~16 kHz, though this
> frequency response can be increased (but no specs) by using a faster clock.
> (Elsewhere on the site is verbiage which explains why frequency response
> above 15 kHz is unimportant. I disagree -- who else here has hearing good
> enough to hear NTSC hsync?)
>
> Nonetheless, it's gotta sound better than a BBD, and like a BBD, it supports
> a variable-rate clock. Crank those pots!
>
>  - Colin Hinz
>  Toronto, Canada
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