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Re: Votrax chip SC01/SC02



Allen Bong wrote:
On Aug 29, 4:14 am, heuser.mar...@freenet.de wrote:

On Aug 28, 9:28 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:




Votrax apparently had SSI manufacture the chip for them, and SSI
took it to market as the SSI-263.  I've never seen a chip labelled
SC-02 (though they may be inside Votrax products), but I've seen
lots of SSI-263 chips.  There are still folks selling old stock
SSI-263's.

I have seen several SC-01's, but they don't seem to be available
any more.

[snip]

Hmmm, no one's mentioned the TI LPC chip yet...   ;-)

He does it:http://redcedar.com/sc01.htm

There may be something for people with an interest in DSPs, too:http://redcedar.com/

HTH,
Marcus


Wow, that's a good find.  Has anyone read the book "Digital Signal
Processing and the Microcontroller" and what do you think about the
book ?

Can the IIgs sound chip be programmed to produce speech?

Yes, but only by using software to synthesize the waveforms and
letting the Ensoniq chip "play" them.

 I have the
Music Synthesizer card which has 3 GI AY8910 chips and a 6522 VIA on
it and I was wondering whether it can be programmed to produce simple
speech.

Not in the way that you hope.  It is possible to use the 8910 volume
controls as a 4-bit DAC to play (rather noisy) waveforms.  Again, you
would need to synthesize the waveforms in software prior to sending
them to the DAC in a timed loop at, say, 8KHz.

-michael

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