Thursday, August 14, 2014
UVA Digital Synthesizer Project
Published on Aug 14, 2014 Gavitronics
"Each year University of Virginia Mechanical Engineering students in Prof. Gavin Garner's Advanced Mechatronics course design digital synthesizers from scratch in order to learn exactly how computers work. They program bytes of data into an EEPROM chip. Their homemade 'computer' then automatically counts up through each address in the EEPROM chip and applies that byte of data to a digital to analog converter chip. Their 'processor' is a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) circuit that converts each byte of data's voltage level into a musical sound or frequency."
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