Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] open-source like hardware
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jan 14 2002 - 15:52:10 EET
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 08:38:08 +0000, Nick Bailey wrote:
> You are right about the cost of custom silicon. You might still consider CPLD
> (Complex Programmable Logic Devices) though. Or a DSP. You might be able to
> get the chips fab'd through your University, who will have an educational
> discount scheme of some sort, but then nobody else will be able to get them,
> and you will have to get them right first time anyway (which hardly ever
> happens).
Shurely you would be better to design something that communicated with the
host via. USB or Firewire, you don't have as many electrical problems and
USB and firewire comms chips are cheap and plentiful.
Just stick the electronics in a 1u rack case.
- Steve
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