[sdiy] Generating a large number of CV outputs

[Mattias Rickardsson]

Hej Danjel! :-)

On Fri, 8 Dec 2023 at 01:37, Danjel van Tijn / intellijel <
danjel at intellijel.com> wrote:

> ...
> Or would it make more sense to use an FPGA and create a giant
> multi-channel 1-Bit DAC?
>
> Looking at some Elektron hardware teardowns it appears that they are using
> the latter approach.
>

Actually not, even if I'm interested in trying similar solutions.
The FPGA does lots of tricks and sends data to a very fast 16-bit DAC,
which is then multiplexed to dozens of CVs. Sadly the DAC is NRND (but
still made, for years and years) and doesn't really have any alternative
coming close to its price/performance, so I cannot really recommend this
exact solution.

Thanks guys for the pointers to the Schlappi video and Matthew's Web log -
I'm off to read it now.

Best,
/mr
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