Macrofab Engineering Podcast

MEP EP#208: Brian Kaczynski with Second SoundBrian 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 Second Sound 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 Integrated Circuit creation How did you go about designing these chips? Software? Required Files? What was your process of