[sdiy] Using dual BBD chips for higher clock frequency

Scott Young thebot at btinternet.com
Fri Jun 17 14:32:03 CEST 2022


Not if you’re a guitarist :-)

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> On 17 Jun 2022, at 10:25, Mike Bryant <mbryant at futurehorizons.com> wrote:
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> Yes.   But 'advantages' and 'religious beliefs' are two very different things :-)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roman Sowa [mailto:modular at go2.pl] 
> Sent: 17 June 2022 10:21
> To: Mike Bryant
> Cc: synth-diy at synth-diy.org
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Using dual BBD chips for higher clock frequency
> 
> I may be wrong, but possibly prefering BBD over ADC-RAM-DAC is the same thing as tube audio amp vs. solid state one.
> Price, performance, ease of use, unobtainable parts - it all does not matter then.
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> Roman
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> W dniu 2022-06-17 o 11:01, Mike Bryant pisze:
>> BBD is only about 12 bits accuracy at best, and there's plenty of cheap ADC/DACs that can run 12 bits at many megahertz.    Pair one of these with a cheap ARM processor with lots of memory.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Synth-diy [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org] On Behalf Of 
>> Jay Schwichtenberg via Synth-diy
>> Sent: 17 June 2022 02:02
>> To: synth-diy at synth-diy.org
>> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Using dual BBD chips for higher clock frequency
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>> Isn't one of the advantages of using a BBD over a digital solution is the clocking can go to 500 KHz to 1MHz?
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>> So depending on the clock freq you can get the aliasing filters higher up and have better freq range.
>> 
>> Jay S.
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