DIY A/D and DA

[SonsOfThunder]

[quote author="Sleeper"]but be warned, the ART stuff I worked on had double sided thru hole boards and it was pretty tough to work on...[/quote] Every @RT PCB I have seen is hard to work on...the annular ring around every hole is too small along with the holes being very tight on the leads. I suppose they have a reason for doing this for production, but it makes them a nightmare to work on!

HTH!
Charlie

 

[Sleeper]

yeah, I saw the s/mux post. you should take a look here
because Dan Lavry is currently answering alot of questions.
makes for good reading.
http://recforums.prosoundweb.com/

the first one is using the alesis adat encoding chip, and put some logic (µP, FPGA, CPLD?) before those, and rearange the bit order coming from the ADC.
the second way is to use a FPGA, µP or CPLD alone, make it encode 96Khz adc data to ADAT

I just started even considering making something non-analog in the last few days... I don't even know what these (FPGA etc.)are...yet

Anyhow, I like the idea of the 4 channel smux I/O card. Lucid makes something like this. If I had 8 channels at 48, I would end up patching them all in and then I'd never use the 96 coz I wouldn't want to lose the 4 channels... this is how my brain works.

much to learn.
sleeper