[sdiy] Taking a Step towards Digital Synthesis?....

[James Patchell]

         Well, today I did it, I ordered the Memec DS-KIT-3SLC400-BAS 
Xilinx Spartan 3 Eval board (it comes with an XC3S400 chip, USB, RS232 and 
JTAG ports).  The real reason is actually to work on a motion controller 
design, but, I figured I could also spend some time implementing a digital 
synthesizer in there as well :-)  Delivery time is about 3 weeks from now 
:-(  ... but I figure I can survive the wait.

The XC3S400 has about 300K bits (36K bytes) of block ram and 16 18x18 
multipliers (I can't believe the multiplier count, I can remember when a 
16x16 multiplier chip was a very expensive item).

I need to start looking about for some 24 bit audio dacs now for doing the 
digital synth...errr...I mean motion controller.... :-)


         -Jim
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