Developing PCI Cards with Plug&Play

Plug&Play is a mystery to you? Until recently it was for me too, but let’s take a look at the PCI specifications and lift the fog of mystery about PnP. Plug&Play Christmas 1994 my family and me got the first computer: an Intel 486Dx4-100 with 16MB RAM and a 534MB harddisk-drive. The only expansion-card was…

Working with multi-channel audio-signals

Todays digital-mixing-consoles are offering high number of audio-channels for processing. I was curious of how modern devices are dealing with realtime digital audio-data and had a look into some of these protocols. I2S, TDM and UltraNet Even if you are not working with professional audio-equipment, at least one of the following systems has been used…

FPGA-based realtime audiomixer with equalizer

Using an Arduino MKR Vidor4000 board I created a realtime multi-channel audiomixer with nice audio-processing-features. General background Sure, digital logic has ones and zeros – but in the right order these two states can have an impact on your sound. I wanted to know how digital logic can be used to change the volume and…

Welcome to this blog!

On this blog I’m writing about my individual projects during my free time. In the past I started to write some articles on my website www.pcdimmer.de, but a blog seems to be a better place to talk about these projects. Some of them are about smart-home, some about FPGA-development and some about Retro-Computing.