MEP EP#208: Brian Kaczynski with Second Sound
Jan 22, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 208
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MEP EP#208: Brian Kaczynski with Second Sound
Brian Kaczhnski
- Brian earned his Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2001
- Has worked since 1999 as a mixed-signal/RF ASIC designer focusing mainly on LAN applications such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB, etc
- His passion for music and desire to bridge the gap between acoustic/electric instruments and music synthesizers (both analog and digital) inspire his current work
- Why the name Second Sound?
- It sounds cool and refers to a quantum mechanical phenomenon
- How many employees?
- ACO100 and ACO160 ICs
- What is an audio controlled oscillator?
- Frequency detection
- ACO160 vs ACO100
- Moving from custom Ic to Firmware solution?
- What drove this decision?
- How does this differ from the hardware solution?
- Will you be offering the ACO100 IC?
- Development Boards
- What is an audio controlled oscillator?
- Integrated Circuit creation
- How did you go about designing these chips?
- Software?
- Required Files?
- What was your process of getting them manufactured?
- Tips and tricks for people wanting to manufacture Ics?
- Challenges and what to avoid?
- How did you go about designing these chips?
- What changed to enable going from a chip design to a MCU firmware based design?
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