[sdiy] CoolAudio chips

[Jay Schwichtenberg]

All,

A number of manufactures license the design and get the mask. What they do
to it after they get it is another story. Some tweak it to make it easier to
manufacture in their fabs or cost reduce it.

Still as mentioned previously this is a branch of Behringer which is on my
personal black list (rip-off lawsuits and the 3 products that I bought of
theirs failed).

What I find interesting is that they bought the company from Intersil.

<http://www.pro-music-news.com/html/02/e00726be.htm>

Good soldering in the new year.
Jay S.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
[mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of Jay
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 12:10 AM
To: Tim Parkhurst
Cc: Jim Thompson; synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: Re: [sdiy] CoolAudio chips


Tim Parkhurst wrote:

> Bear in mind however, that we still haven't verified that these chips
> don't suck

Aren't most chips reverse-engineered by the various chip foundries
anyways? Surely some brands of TLO72's must suck...