On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Renato <rennabh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:54:46 -0500 > Charles Henry <czhenry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi, list >> >> I'm interested in getting feedback for a project, namely building an >> audio interface, with the goal of creating freely available schematics >> and code required. Hence, an Open Sound Interface. > > Hi, I find this idea remarkable. I'm not able to contribute on the > technical parts, but I just wanted to signal you something I found out > some time ago: > > http://www.ohwr.org/projects/cernohl/wiki/CernOhlProjects > > basically, from what I understand, at CERN in Switzerland they > developed a license for open source hardware ("The CERN–OHL is to > hardware what the General Public Licence (GPL) is to software"), and > they're working on several pieces of hardware under this license. If > you go in the "Projects" section, you can see there are some ADCs and > DACs, so maybe you can find some useful stuff for your project :) > > cheers and good luck, > renato This is also terrific information! There's some great HDL/FPGA info under projects, which covers some of the hardware interfaces that I've been considering. Also, some hardware DAQ projects (stuff in the Msamples/sec range, which is higher spec than we're interested in for right now). Thanks for the info! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
