<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Interesting that they would use a chip that is sort of obsolete. Do you think they deemed the CA3080 to be more reliable than the LM13700 or just more compatible to their specific needs?</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 8, 2021, at 6:40 AM, Mattias Rickardsson <mr@analogue.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Cool!<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Oh, so that's why people nowadays spell out OTA as "over the air" ;-)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">/mr</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Den tors 8 apr. 2021 12:50Spiros Makris via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> skrev:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">What if I told you that CA3080 has been to space?<div>I was going through various documents of the MAVEN mission I found on an FTP server online and what do you know, the part that made history in the synth world was used and flown all the way to Mars, and even entered its atmosphere.</div><div><div><image.png></div><br></div><div>Unsurprisingly, it is among the few non-qualified parts on the list and the cheapest, at $1.80</div><div>I peaked at the schematics and they used it for signal conditioning before an ADC (peak detection I think).</div><div>A whole new level of flex by one of the most influential ICs of Synth history!</div><div><br></div><div>MAVEN was launched on 2013 and has been operational, orbiting Mars until today. It's primary mission is to study the upper martian atmosphere.</div><div><br></div></div>
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