[sdiy] Karaoke boom-box echo chips

[Eric Brombaugh]

On Mar 26, 2010, at 11:34 PM, anthony wrote:

> The only datasheet I've found is for the Semicon CD3699, but most of it is in Chinese. If anyone can read and translate Chinese, it would be cool to have an English version of this datasheet - not to say that's impossible to follow - the salient features are sort of in English. It's easy to find the datasheet on Google. It's a good thing the datasheet is available easilly, because divining what each pin does just by following PCB traces would be fruitless, I'd wager. The datsheet is also nice in that it shows a couple of different application configurations.

Google Language Tools:

http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en

actually does a pretty good job of translating Chinese to English. I recently used it to translate some technical Chinese from an embedded computer manual - it ended up being about 90% understandable - some idioms didn't work out too well. Simply cut/paste into the the web page & read back the result.

Eric