Comments on: PWM Sound Generation

By: Berni

Berni — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:12:03 +0000

I looked around microchips data sheets and seams there is no waiting for reading it just for writing.So i guess the limit for read speed is the serial bus clock i can be 1Mhz for I2C and 20Mhz for SPI so its relay fast.So real time recording is not possible but playback probably is.(with a dsPIC probably capable of 48Khz 16Bit)

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:02:54 +0000

I don’t know if I can get 8kB/s into and out of the EEPROM (It’s some Microchip serial EEPROM I added to my sample order a few months ago to pad it out a little because I have to find it and look at the spec sheet still.

If it’s not possible to stream the audio onto or off of the EEPROM in realtime, then I’ll look at copying it to program space and playing from there. I suspect that 8kB/sec isn’t prohibitively fast, however.

By: Berni

Berni — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:57:56 +0000

A EEPROM is not a bad idea, but is it fast enough to play sound in real time? Can a small serial EEPROM do 8KB/s ?

Well i have some 4MB RAM chips,but the thing is huge since its parallel and a backup battery inside the chip.But since its ram it can write or read in next to no time.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:38:37 +0000

With small mods you can compile the code for any ATmega168. I got it running and working on a mega168 I had wired up for other purposes, using a darlington pair on the output pin (PB3) to push my 5v source through an 8 ohm speaker.

I’m going to try to expand the memory by adding a serial EEPROM to the board and seeing where that goes.

Nice job!

By: Berni

Berni — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:14:51 +0000

Nice one, on my PWM sound experiment i only played out sound that is real time generated in the MCU( Sweaped a sinus over various freqecnys)I never toght about playing a audio sample on that.That wouldn’t be hard to do anyway since i can just replace the sinus sample.