Entries tagged circuits | Hugonweb Annotated Link Bibliography

A tutorial on exponential converters and temperature compensation

https://schmitzbits.de/expo_tutorial/

A simple tutorial on synthesizer exponential converters and how their temperature compensation works.

Thermal compensation of analog exponential converters

http://www.openmusiclabs.com/files/expotemp.pdf

A survey of thermal compensation for analog synthesizer exponential converters.

Shmøergh Moduleur

https://www.shmoergh.com/moduleur/

An open-source, modular analog synthesizer system.

Yusynth DIY modular synth

https://yusynth.net/Modular/index_en.html

A bunch of DIY synthesizer modules, including schematics and photographs.

MicroPythonOS

https://micropythonos.com/

Open-source operating system that runs on ESP32 boards with a touch-screen interface. Develop software in MicroPython.

How systolic arrays work

https://williampan-personalwebsite.vercel.app/blog/systolic-array

An explanation with nice diagrams and discussion of why sistolic arrays are efficient for neural networks.

Tiny Tapeout

https://tinytapeout.com

The cheapest and easiest way to get custom silicon fabricated, as far as I can tell. The trick is not only using a shared wafer, but also sharing the chip: each design in a batch is on every chip. A controller circuit selects which design is active at a given time. See also this paper describing the history of the project.

Tayloe Quadrature Product Detector

https://www.norcalqrp.org/files/Tayloe_mixer_x3a.pdf

This simple circuit directly converts from RF down to baseband. Four square waves operating at 4×FRF4 \times F_{RF} and shifted 90° from each other control a multiplexer thus producing four quadrature signals. These can be combined to give I and Q signals. A copy of the PDF is here.

I found this while reading about the Pi Pico Rx, which uses this circuit and a Raspberry Pi Pico to make a software defined radio.