From: Fox <fox_at_woozle.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 02:13:50 -0500

I don't know how much these will help, but i decided to do some digging.
Some of it has chip data, others have some interesting talk about the chip:

http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/fli/fli115.html
http://www.micronas.com/products/documentation/consumer/mas3587f/index.php
http://www.us.design-reuse.com/news/news722.html
http://rt.cs.tu-berlin.de/lehre/aes/intermetall-mas3587f.pdf

-Fox



"Matthew P. OReilly" <moreilly_at_moreilly.com> wrote in message
news:MPBBJKNKCFICFDCNLBNDGEJNDPAA.moreilly_at_moreilly.com...
> Sorry to resurrect an old thread (at least I changed the subject line...),
> but I'm just catching up on 4000+ emails and ran across this.
>
> I have some questions:
> 1)What sort of money are we talking here? $10^y, y=?
> 2)How could we be sure that purchasing/licensing the requisite info from
> Micronas, or the experience of someone with access to their docs, wouldn't
> violate the terms of the agreement for the licensing or conversely the
> license under which Rockbox is published?
> 3)In light of the points brought out in this thread, what do we see as the
> big benefits of having access to the MAS programming?
>
> I'm all for contributing, but I think we need to know what we're getting
> into here before we start looking at this seriously.
>
> Thx
> Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se]On
> Behalf Of BlueChip
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 8:42 PM
> To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: play WAV?
>
>
> I currently have every intention of writing the code myself - given that
> embedded code is love and living. Sadly, however, _money_ is not
something
> I can offer to the project :(
>
> So given that in this context I am classified as a 'developer' if there is
> anybody who cannot talk to their friends about this, all/any cash
donations
> will be greatfully received. If this is a serious option, then I will
look
> into the precise cost involved :)
>
> One post, two great ideas - cheers Donaldson,
>
> BC
>
> > From reading the micronas data sheet all you have to do is pay them
> >a nince chunk of money and you can purchase the development kit for the
> >DSP. I don't know what limitations are on the dsp code but I'm guessing
> >you could load the binary form into a freewareish project. So what
> >I'm saying is, if you want wav support that bad pay one of the developers
> >enough money to purchase an development kit.
> >
> >Donaldson
>
>
> >>
> Back in the early days of Rockbox we found a guy who actually had done
> "microcode" coding on the MAS and we emailed him to ask for help, but he
> declined as we couldn't offer him any money and he didn't feel like
helping
> us
> for the fun of it.
> (snipped from one of Daniel's posts)
> <<
>
>
Received on 2004-01-08