On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:47:40 +1200, you wrote: >From: Edson Brusque >> I'm making some research for a future product and want to know if >>there's a chip that can generate 8 PWM outputs at high frequency (say, >>30KHz) based on a serial input. It have to work as some kind of 8-channel >>DAC, but outputting PWM and not linear voltage. > How about a CPLD ? Macrocell counts for 8 PWM's are: 6 bit resolution : 62 7 bit resolution : 71 8 bit resolution : 80 9 bit resolution : 89 10 bit resolution : 98 64-cell CPLD's can be had for as little as $2 (altera) C >A new processor (addition to an existing product line) is about to come to >market in the next few weeks which largely meets this requirement EXCEPT >that It has 4 (not 8) hardware PWMs but it would be extremely easy to use >two tightly coupled. Pricing will be good enough that the use of 2 may well >be economic. > >Package is "compact" and price is extremely reasonable given other >capabilities. >It's not a PIC. > >I'm not allowed to provide more detail at present (if I value staying alive) >but it sounds a very useful addition to existing devices. >I'll post more details here when they become public knowledge. > > > Russell McMahon >_____________________________ > >From other worlds - www.easttimor.com > www.sudan.com > >What can one man* do? >Help the hungry at no cost to yourself! >at http://www.thehungersite.com/ > >(* - or woman, child or internet enabled intelligent entity :-))