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I was thinking of hobbyists using homegrown ICs "because they can", not just for the final product, in the same way that people build computers purely out of 74
by moring 3y ago
I was thinking of hobbyists using homegrown ICs "because they can", not just for the final product, in the same way that people build computers purely out of 74-series ICs or discrete transistors. In fact, if the final product is all you want, using an FPGA is not worth the effort most of the times.
- b800h 3y agoOh I see, sorry yes. That said, there are certain ICs which are simply too funky for FPGAs to manage, for example the SID chip, which had a number of analogue components on the IC to enhance the sounds it produced. Having a hobbyist method for producing something like that would be cool too.
- blincoln 3y agoI don't know how big the market is, but there are definitely musicians out there who would love to be able to buy clones of a wide variety of out-of-production analogue ICs to restore vintage equipment, build kits that depend on those parts, and so on. VCFs, VCOs, etc.