MOTM

You caught my interest with this chip. It seems to be an actual hi-res
sampled sine wave that can be given frequency and phase digitally. However,
if I read it right, it has a minimum clocking frequency of 5 MEGAhertz,
below which it powers itself down.

Also, while this chip can output sine and square waveforms, a ramp (even
better, bi-directional ramps) are needed for a Shepard "barberpole" effect.

Could be cool though. I'll keep browsing the docs. Maybe a cool additive
synth oscillator could be made with this chip, since the app notes talk
about controlling the amplitude digitally as well. 


 -----Original Message-----
From: 	revtor@... [mailto:revtor@aol.com] 
Sent:	Sunday, 03 December, 2000 9:40 PM
To:	motm@egroups.com
Subject:	[motm] cool chip   ?

all,
  on the analog devices website..
found chip # AD9851.   outputs a digitized analog sinewave.  the cool thing 
is though that    "The device provides 5-bits of digitally-controlled phase 
modulation which enables phase shifting of its output in increments of 180°,

90°, 45°, 22.5°, 11.25°, and any combination thereof. "   Phase control..   
now if the thing can generate LFO range waves.....   useful I woudl think as

a basis for something right?  Shepard tones and im sure alot more.
output tuning resolution of 40 milli hertz   pretty good, no?
later,
~Steve