Re: 16 second delay problem

[Matthias Grob <matthias@grob.org>]

>  I've always wanted to know:  what are "bucket brigade" components???

they transfer charge from one capacitor (bucket) to the next at each clock.
So its a clocked delay of analog samples. A analog FIFO memory (means 
the old samples come out as the new ones go in, no way to reread the 
same loop or jump arround in it).
And they are noisy and expensive.

I think the biggest chips had 4000 buckets which corresponds to 
4kByte of digital sound memory (because you can only hold 2000 
samples in 4000 buckets, since you need to transfer from a full to an 
empty bucket, but a digital sample takes 2 Bytes = 16bit).


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