On 4/6/06, Jack Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, that puts the discussion in context. I think a few of us were > tripping over the meaning of "high-end" audio. If you restrict it to what > can be done in a card that plugs into a computer, that's a whole different > kettle of fish.
I'm not saying to restrict to this. I'm saying that we should not have this as the most important aspect of the job. We've done cases before. We've done all kinds of stuff before. > I still think the trickiest part is requirements capture, though. > But, presumably, this groups knows a lot more about the purpose and > requirements for an in-computer sound card than a true ultra-high-end > audio-to-digital interface unit, which is what some of us evolved toward in > earlier postings. I still like the idea of the card+box solution. I'm also cool with a card-only solution. I want to leave the decision up to the community. > The most difficult piece of parts shopping might be finding DAC > chips with an adequate production lifetime. The performance certainly > should be readily available. I'm pretty sure we can do that sigma-delta thing ourselves. It's the ADC that will require this kind of research. > Regarding external products with their own cases, some of us here > have experience with that. Mine is mostly with sheet metal, which is good > for rugged, EMI-hardened professional gear anyway. Injection-molded plastic > cases are horrendously expensive to tool, and the off-the-shelf ones look > crummy. You are the sort of person we would rely on for help with this. > But I think a high-end professional recording product would just > exceed our resources, especially in requirements capture, and there isn't > any chip design to do in it anyway except maybe for a little FPGA glue > logic. I think we can do most of the stuff in FPGAs. What exceeds our resources are things like ASIC fab (which we can skip here) and time (which is its own problem). _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
