For info, some approx prices ( inc uk vat);
Beaglebone £36
AM3359 CPU £30
ADAU1966 DAC (16 channel 24 bit balanced out, 200kHz
£13 (yes that's thirteen...)
The evaluation board for the DAC is around £250 so not a viable option for
production but a good way of trying it out as it goes to a standard loom
with D type connectors at one end and xlr's at the other.
Particularly in terms of the DAC, I don't think daisy chaining of cheaper
stereo units could possibly be cheaper, though if you wanted to go for 8
channel chunks there's the AD1933/4 at about half the price of adau1966.
Dave
On 24 May 2013 09:36, Michael Chapman <s...@mchapman.com> wrote:
> Sampo à écrit:
>
> Seriously, if even this kind of a list really wanted to make something
> happen, we could easily forget about PLAs, FPGAs, Arms, Intels and
> everything else. The price of a pure pedal-to-the-metal ASIC is so low,
> and it's allure so great to major hardware manufacturers (if done
> right), that we could actually jump to that final semiconductor
> technology right now. Seriously. :)
> ___
>
> I'm usually negative about IP (patents, registered designs, ...), but an
> anecdote:
> Knew a zoologist who invented a wonderful gadget. Published the design.
> Then went to a manufacturer.
> They agreed it was wonderful, but said that tooling up to make it did not
> make commercial sense, as once they'd 'created the market' they would be
> undercut and they'd lose out.
> So if you want to be sure of a manufacturer you may need to be able to
> licence it.
> Sure you can insist on sensible pricing as part of the licence (and not
> take any revenue oneself ...).
>
> Michael
>
>
> PS Minor point,not worth responding at the time: But my 'daisy-chaining'
> argument did involve a 'chain', i.e. a bit of wire between boxes ... for
> the synch, the clock, whatever ...
> MC
>
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Dave Malham
Ex-Music Research Centre
Department of Music
The University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD
UK
'Ambisonics - Component Imaging for Audio'
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