Doug Sutherland wrote:
Georg,
The amazing thing about these Silicon Labs parts is that they require
almost no external components. For example the SI470x FM tuners
require a crystal and regulator, that is all, they can use headphone
cable as antenna (as is done in most phones now), and they have
stereo analog output and SPI interface for control and for getting
the RDS/RDBS station identification and song info as text. Those
analog outputs could feed right into a TI PCM2900 and then
you have a driverless USB audio FM tuner. Without access to
SPI though a small microcontroller would be required. Could be
done with a $2 ARM7 or Cortex-M3.
I haven't looked too closely at the FM transmitters or receivers
yet, but I'll take a look and see what kind of external components
are required. So you're not even interested in FM tuner, just FM
transmitters and receivers?
BTW I also have hardware based text-to-speech chips here
that work really well and also require few components, they
are UART input and analog and/or digital audio output, I have
already made one full speech synth for someone using them
and have several more chipsets here.
I am actually more interested in speech based interfaces to
phones and PDAs than the fancy GUIs, might be interesting
to bolt one onto a Neo at some point. My phone should
READ web pages and email to me and whisper in my ear.
-- Doug
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Doug,
I'm interested in a FM transmitter in order to for example listen to my
music on my car's radio. A receiver (tuner?) would be nice in order to
listen to radio on the phone. Well I think I mixed up "receiver" and
"tuner" as I'm not native english-speaking.. So if I've understood right
a receiver already plays the music on the radio, while a tuner passes
the data to another device (in this case the phone?) .. Then what I want
is a FM transmitter and a tuner :)
What you've mentioned that far sounds interesting, but you're talking
about USB.. Are there some internal usb-ports on the Neo or how are you
planning to add this extension to it? By plugging it into the external
usb-port?
Your voice-to-text and voice-to-input project sound interesting too but
my primary interest for the moment concerns the FM transmitter/tuner
project.
. Georg
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