Hi Ishaan,

Thanks for sharing your experience with us. You should maintain this
on your website :-).

Do you have any experience with ST Microelectronics?

Regards,


> Thanks for the compliment, Mike. Just to add some changed I've observed
> since the quoted message:
> 
> 
> To the poster wondering about getting samples or not: definitely get
> them, as long as they are for personal use. Unless your professors are
> really rigid, use some custom sample parts to spice up your projects.
> Besides being intensely fun, it introduces you to thinking outside the
> box. As an example, for the digital logic design class which I took as a
> freshman, I made an analog synthesizer using exotic (for the class)
> parts such as a divide-by-N chip (CD4059), analog switches, active opamp
> filters, a crystal oscillator, "touch" switches and so on. I later
> "ported" the design to an 18F, which used DDS (direct digital synthesis)
> to do the same thing. Later this semester, I will be working on a
> speech/music analyzer, and as one of the asides, I will have (probably
> the dsPIC) a 3
> DSP synthesizing music with inverse FFTs...it's been a fun 2 years!
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> -Ishaan

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