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I recently bought some FPAAs from Anadigm, specifically the 3.3V version: AN231E04-E2-QFNSP

Interestingly they use a switched-capacitor design, which means you can only input signals lower than the clock frequency used for switching the caps.

I had a look for continuous-time FPAAs but couldn't find any.

My goal is simply to make a guitar FX pedal with them, as they can alter gain, perform filtering such band-pass etc.

Potentially I could see it having lower latency than DSP, if anyone knows more about that, I'd be very curious.




This may be completely not what you're looking for, but take a look at Cypress' PSOC devices. They have an interesting mix of analog and digital programmable blocks.


You can do digital control of analog circuits, PGA, digital pots, etc.

Just had a fun idea, you could use an LED to charge a rotating photoluminescent medium and then read out the intensity some rotation angle later, it be like a magnetic tape loop but have its own decay as well. Modulate the speed of rotation, the read angle and the intensity of the write.

http://www.identi-tape.com/photolum-tape.htm on the edge of a turn table


Heh, that's a really cool idea!


If you are interested, I did some research on extremely fast, lower power, and low noise filtering using FPGAs or CPLDs.


Sure, that sounds cool! (I've got a cheap FPGA dev board that's got an ADC/DAC on, that I wouldn't mind putting to good use)


Most of the research work was targeting a specific development paltform, so I don't have good instructions for doing it generally. Here is the paper we based our research off of: http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~johns/ece1371/papers/1993_lewis...

Here is my presentation poster which should explain the motivation and theory a little more clearly than the paper: https://www.ece.ucsb.edu/academics/undergrad/capstone/event-...

I graduated before we got it releasable, and haven't had much time with my job to finish up the project. I don't have more time to add to this explanation, but if you want more info or implementation help, feel free to email me: alecdibble at gmail dot com.


I am interested if you are willing to share!





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