bleedingearaudio
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Not sure if this is the right place for this, but I was thinking about making a simple ADAT to SPDIFformat converter for myself but then, as usual, the different ideas I had for it started getting away from the "simple" part. I am mostly interested in this to interface my AD8000 to my DAW so I wasn't going to worry about SMUX or anything above 48K. But I figured I would put it out there and see if anyone else might be interested in something that could be interfaced with whatever they might be building. These would be based around the Wavefront chips because I have a healthy pile of them however the supply is limited. Theres a couple of options:
Easiest - I already have a board design and a prototype for a basic wavefront encoder/decoder with supplies and level shifters that uses a microcontroller to set modes. It's small and just brings out all the clocks and data lines out to a header for interfacing with other things. but it's basically done and all I would have to do is order more PCBs if people want them. because of the uC I wouldn't feel comfortable selling these as a kit because with being programmed properly they are useless. but it would be a low parts count so it wouldn't be too much for me to assemble.
Moderate - Ideally I wanted a no-fuss ADAT to AES, AES to ADAT with external word clock. this would be simple to design, but its a higher part count and since I hand assemble these, I'm not sure what the final cost would be, but I would totally be down for selling kits for these since there would be no uC or anything to program, everything would be hardware jumpers. it would be all surface mount though so you would have to be comfortable with soldering down to 0603 resistors. still only 48K though, keep that in mind.
Super duper - If there's enough interest to make it worth while, we could go all out with SMUX and a DSP for clock control and management. This would be a reasonably complicated build and would take the most time (I do have a day job and a 1-year-old). but its definitely possible. I just don't think there would be enough interest in this. The original idea of this is to keep things simple, and if you wanted something complicated RME makes a box that does all of this.
Anyways... I have 4 of the "easy" PCBs. I plan on keeping at least two for myself. Plenty of Wavefront parts. even if you just wanted to buy some of those from me I'm open to it.
Easiest - I already have a board design and a prototype for a basic wavefront encoder/decoder with supplies and level shifters that uses a microcontroller to set modes. It's small and just brings out all the clocks and data lines out to a header for interfacing with other things. but it's basically done and all I would have to do is order more PCBs if people want them. because of the uC I wouldn't feel comfortable selling these as a kit because with being programmed properly they are useless. but it would be a low parts count so it wouldn't be too much for me to assemble.
Moderate - Ideally I wanted a no-fuss ADAT to AES, AES to ADAT with external word clock. this would be simple to design, but its a higher part count and since I hand assemble these, I'm not sure what the final cost would be, but I would totally be down for selling kits for these since there would be no uC or anything to program, everything would be hardware jumpers. it would be all surface mount though so you would have to be comfortable with soldering down to 0603 resistors. still only 48K though, keep that in mind.
Super duper - If there's enough interest to make it worth while, we could go all out with SMUX and a DSP for clock control and management. This would be a reasonably complicated build and would take the most time (I do have a day job and a 1-year-old). but its definitely possible. I just don't think there would be enough interest in this. The original idea of this is to keep things simple, and if you wanted something complicated RME makes a box that does all of this.
Anyways... I have 4 of the "easy" PCBs. I plan on keeping at least two for myself. Plenty of Wavefront parts. even if you just wanted to buy some of those from me I'm open to it.