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- From: stirling@mullet.gu.uwa.edu.au (Stirling Hamersley)
- Subject: Oversampling, Dig. Filtering and DAC's
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.040424.16203@mullet.gu.uwa.edu.au>
- Organization: University Computer Club --- Perth, Western Australia
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 04:04:24 GMT
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- I am building a sound card for my PC (much more fun than buying one)
- and I am wondering how to get really good sound quality.
-
- The card and computer will be dedicated to playing sound (as its not so
- I can have really good sound just to play games) so it should be able
- to provide data at a rate of 176.4 words per second to the 16bit DAC.
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- How do CD players do their over sampling ? Do you have to use a DSP ?
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- How Do they do their Digital Filtering?
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- While suppling the data the the DAC there is a small amount of time
- where the output drops to zero while the FIFO that supplies the data
- is in transition to the next word (about 300 ns).
- Will a filter remove and this glitch ?
- Or should I use a store and hold amp ?
- Or would it be easier to use two 74LS373's ( trans. octal latch ) ?
- BURR BROWN suggest passing the final output through a low pass filter anyway.
- What is a good low pass filter ?
-
- The prototype board I am wire-wrapping on has a ground plane so I hope
- this will shield some of the noise.
- What sort of problems can I expect to encounter with noise and how
- can I overcome it?
-
- Oh so many questions. But then I am only one of those ignorant programmers
- who does not wade to deeply into the unknown depths of analog electronics.
-
- Thankyou for you time.
-
- "You can't know everything until you know you can't know everything"
- - Hamersley.
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