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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: MASRe: MAS
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 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |