Linear Interpolation Extension Employing Three-Gradient

Speed and Memory Size Optimization When developing digital signal processor for Deepstomp, we employs a cheap 32-bit processor without floating point unit. Consequently, we have to optimize all computation in fix point math. The most important effect, especially for electric guitar, is distortion effect. It is simulated using sigmoid or sigmoid-like functions such arctan, tanh, or some others. Those functions […]

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DIY Multi-Effect Pedal Platform is Now Low-Cost!

DIY Multi-Effect Pedal and Today’s Advanced Electronics Digital DIY multi-effect pedal is an expensive things in the past, but the advance of today’s digital electronics brings new hopes for many things. Because now there are many choices for low cost and high performance DSP microcontrollers, now I think we can implement a DIY multi-effect pedal with much lower cost than […]

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Multi-Channel Expansion Oversampling: 15Bit from 12Bit ADC

Introduction: Analog-to-Digital Conversion Oversampling Every analog-to-digital conversion is designed for specific resolution depending on the bit (binary digit) width of the conversion. For example, a 10 bit ADC with 5V reference would have 5V/1024 resolution or about 4.883 mV. The intrinsic error related to the resolution is the digital-quantization error  of ±0.5 bit. In other words, it should produce only […]

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16-bit Audio PWM by Dual 8-bit PWM with Auto Calibration

Introduction: PWM (Pulse-Width Modulation) for Digital Audio Conversion Pulse width modulation (PWM) technique has been widely used for converting digital audio stream into audio signal since it is very simple and easy to implement. Many low-cost micro controllers include dedicated PWM controllers as their standards, and many engineers use it for many purposes. In this article, we present the solution […]

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Writing Simple Software Serial Function in Arduino

Introduction: Hardware Serial Vs Software Serial Arduino hardware and software development platform provides both hardware serial and software serial communication libraries. Hardware serial communication uses the microcontroller’s internal serial interface hardware that manage the digital signaling on its pin, even computing the parity bit for data transmission or for checking the received data if required (configured),  so the CPU can […]

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