stryd_one

All good mate :) Welcome aboard! Well never let it be said, that you aren't ambitious ;) I assume you have some circuit design and programming skills? It sounds like you might... I think that a very small PCB could be built around this IC which would support a single pair of audio channels (It can be stereo or dual mono). As for flexibility, the important part is to make it simple to cascade the serial I/O and power. The rest can be handled by the core. This leaves the audio summing to a separate circuit which would be specific to each users requirements (if they require summing at all). Please do :) There is a storm of interest growing around these IC's at the moment. Don't worry about how long it takes, it's your adventure :) Plus, I get the impression you'll be working as part of a growing team on this one ;)

Sorry - regarding the seq v3, I've looked at this screenshot and realised that it might cut some menu items in half :( I'll wait until I see the final release, but I'll almost certainly use the 2x2x20 solution anyway, diced up menus don't bother me that much.

I've got one of those too. I think the pinning is the same, there are just some unused pins on that dsub connx.

Nice! Can I ask, where'd you get those caps? And how do the leads get out from under there?

I'm a bit confused... I see the buss that runs to ground, and a lot of other busses running in parralel.... Does it work so that each bar contacts the ground always, and one of the other busses depending on it's position? or does it contact the ground always, and then each of the busses following? So if the bar is set to '7' (drawbar slides out 2 'notches' from fully closed), does it contact only the 2nd buss, or does it contact buss 2 and buss 1?

It came out like last week, so you'll want at least 0630 or so (+/- a few weeks because I'm too lazy to count them)

We almost need a chat room for this ;) Hey when we're done, we'll have a C based aout_lc driver :)

Thanks dude! Regarding the 2x2x20 LCD's as a replacement for a 2x40, TK has confirmed that using a custom LCD driver will be compatible with existing apps. Of course two additional select lines will be required, but that would not be a problem in most apps. About the PLEDs in the HP MSA's, I thought the same thing, but it's like 150 degrees viewable (probably more but the bezel around it gets in the way) and not a hint of backlighting, so I'm pretty sure. The datasheet I got from OSD for the 2nd release model was timestamped 5/04/2004. PLED and OLEDs have been around for a few years now, but it was only recently that the prices dropped to a point where they were worth considering unless you really needed one. I guess HP decided that the most badass SAN of it's time wasn't complete without one ;) Interestingly I did note that the previous models had a very similar screen, almost identical colour, and very high contrast.... But you could see the backlighting and the grid of the characters if you got to a steep viewing angle, so they'd be LCD's...

That's it, I'm changing my sig ;D

email coming your way... Let me know if it works, I'll document it more neatly for the wiki....

That's right, and also and the PIC itself, setting the pins etc... The hp MSA SAN's have these displays, and so far, the ones in our DC have been on for over 2 years, 24x7, and no sign of problems... I'd say most midiboxes will be quite some years old before we see a screen failure...

Skinny white guy does barry white....hmmmm... I won't embarass myself ;)

Not bad :D I had a feeling they were a little quicker but not that much...

You don't know of barry white? :'( You gotta hear this guy man, his voice is like pure molten gold

Warning - while you were typing a new reply has been posted. You may wish to review your post. Hah, I just figured it out too :D ROFL...That's 3 hours wasted! ;) Hey mail me the new one and I'll scope it out.

'bout the same as an LCD :)

Next thing you'll be dancing around singing like Barry White "My darling, I.... Can't get enough of drawbars baaaby"

It's not what you'd expect either.... The processor does seem to be defined in the source... I'm looking at it now...

Oh come on DrBunsen I didn't mean it ;) <TopGun Victory Scene> You can snipe my auctions anytime Bull#$*t, you can snipe mine! </TopGun Victory Scene> OK fellas, I saw it first: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260015289167 <italian mafioso>keepa da hands off...capisci??</italian mafioso> ;) Yeh, I've been writing too much code ;)

I thought the drawbars had a few steps on each one? I just had a look at the pic to see if my memory serves and it looks like 8 stops each to me... Hey henry once you take delivery, could you take a bunch of pics for us? Especially closeups of mechanics and circuitry and such... That would be really helpful. Anyway, better to use one AIN for each, than one DIN and a stack of DOUTs, or a stack of DINs... Although I noticed that the wiring is still there, so it might be easier to solder a scan matrix. Hey henry don't put tooo much weight in what I say... I'm still learning :) Don't be fooled by my post count, that doesn't mean that I know stuff, it means that I talk too much ;)

Told you, PLED's are the shiznit. We can all thank Wilba for making that spot :) FYI guys you can get these from onestopdisplays as well, and if you're in Australia and want one, I'm about to buy quite a few from a local distributor, so you could join me and we might make a price break point...Oh I'm getting a few 4x20's as well... Anyway, I am assuming that they're the same, as all my research shows me that there's only one factory putting out PLED character displays...Just a damn shame they don't make a 2x40!! So now you all know why I was talking about a 2x2x20 LCD driver to replace the 2x40 screens..... Imagine four of these on an MBSEQ...... Tasty.

I wish! It seems like TK is the only one around here who has made CS menu routines from scratch.... To the rest of us, it's voodoo science :-\ Maybe that's a topic for a thread in the development forums? Did you end up using the PGA2311 IC's? I'm toying with those at the moment too....

50 bucks! Score!! At a guess, I'd go with the 'resistive' route using AINs, just because it means less programming needed, and less IO used... But I've never seen the circuitry so I don't know how hard it would be to do...

TK makes very good points :) Good luck man!

I understand .... If you weren't excited about getting it built as soon as possible, there might be something wrong with you ;) hehehe It's sure shaping up to be something special!