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Fast forward 6 years and it looks like they are available from a company called Anadigm ( http://www.anadigm.com/fpaa.asp http://www.anadigm.com/fpaa.asp ). Th

Fast forward 6 years and it looks like they are available from a company called Anadigm ( http://www.anadigm.com/fpaa.asp http://www.anadigm.com/fpaa.asp ). This sounds like it could be a great fit for Software Defined Radio.

mikepurvis 12y ago
Dev kit is $200. Chip is listed at Arrow for ~$10, but out of stock. I wonder if you could do some interesting analog audio stuff, like building low part count multi-speaker crossover networks, etc. Then again, for $10 apiece, it probably still makes way more sense to just put a cortex or something on there and do it all digitally.
- _-__--- 12y ago
  You could market it to the analog-or-nothing crowd in the audio community. Decreasing production time of "boutique" analog clone effects pedals could make you some cash.
  - mikepurvis 12y ago
    That would be neat— a reconfigurable effect pedal that you could download and install new patches for. The _real_ trick would be providing the option to route the signals out of this thing and through vacuum tube stages, so you're not stuck trying to build a decent overdrive or compressor with silicon-only components.
- deutronium 12y ago
  You can buy the chips directly from them, for around ~$10 each.
imrehg 12y ago
They sell the dev kit for the current AN231E04 part, but at least the Asian distributor does not stock it (only back order), and over $200, but at least it is available from 1. If I'd just want the part, it comes in 1000 increments... I'd have some more ideas for lab instruments, but under these circumstances it cannot really be used for product development, sadly
- pointfree 12y ago
  I just found that the part is available through distributors on alibaba one of them even selling in min orders of 1. http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product_en&CatId=&SearchText=AN231E04 http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product_...
  - pinkyand 12y ago
    With all the fake electronic parts coming from china, are those companies a trustworthy long term source for such companies ? Not sure. One common advice is to buy from authorized sources, and looking through octopart[1], arrow is the only distributor of anadgim, with 1000 units minimum quantities. [1]http://octopart.com/partsearch#!?q=anadigm&sortby=avg_price%20asc&start=0&limit=10 http://octopart.com/partsearch#!?q=anadigm&sortby=avg_price%...

mikepurvis 12y ago

Dev kit is $200. Chip is listed at Arrow for ~$10, but out of stock. I wonder if you could do some interesting analog audio stuff, like building low part count multi-speaker crossover networks, etc. Then again, for $10 apiece, it probably still makes way more sense to just put a cortex or something on there and do it all digitally.

_-__--- 12y ago
You could market it to the analog-or-nothing crowd in the audio community. Decreasing production time of "boutique" analog clone effects pedals could make you some cash.
- mikepurvis 12y ago
  That would be neat— a reconfigurable effect pedal that you could download and install new patches for. The _real_ trick would be providing the option to route the signals out of this thing and through vacuum tube stages, so you're not stuck trying to build a decent overdrive or compressor with silicon-only components.
deutronium 12y ago
You can buy the chips directly from them, for around ~$10 each.

imrehg 12y ago

They sell the dev kit for the current AN231E04 part, but at least the Asian distributor does not stock it (only back order), and over $200, but at least it is available from 1. If I'd just want the part, it comes in 1000 increments... I'd have some more ideas for lab instruments, but under these circumstances it cannot really be used for product development, sadly

pointfree 12y ago
I just found that the part is available through distributors on alibaba one of them even selling in min orders of 1. http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product_en&CatId=&SearchText=AN231E04 http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product_...
- pinkyand 12y ago
  With all the fake electronic parts coming from china, are those companies a trustworthy long term source for such companies ? Not sure. One common advice is to buy from authorized sources, and looking through octopart[1], arrow is the only distributor of anadgim, with 1000 units minimum quantities. [1]http://octopart.com/partsearch#!?q=anadigm&sortby=avg_price%20asc&start=0&limit=10 http://octopart.com/partsearch#!?q=anadigm&sortby=avg_price%...