MEP EP#208: Brian Kaczynski with Second Sound

<h4><a href="https://macrofab.com/blog/mep-ep208-brian-kaczynski-with-second-sound">MEP EP#208: Brian Kaczynski with Second Sound</a><br></h4><h4>Brian Kaczhnski</h4> <ul> <li>Brian earned his Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2001</li> <li>Has worked since 1999 as a mixed-signal/RF ASIC designer focusing mainly on LAN applications such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB, etc</li> <li>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</li> </ul> <h4><a href="https://secondsound.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Second Sound</a></h4> <ul> <li>Why the name Second Sound? <ul> <li>It sounds cool and refers to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_sound" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quantum mechanical phenomenon</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>How many employees?</li> <li>ACO100 and ACO160 ICs <ul> <li>What is an audio controlled oscillator? <ul> <li>Frequency detection</li> </ul> </li> <li>ACO160 vs ACO100</li> <li>Moving from custom Ic to Firmware solution? <ul> <li>What drove this decision?</li> <li>How does this differ from the hardware solution?</li> <li>Will you be offering the ACO100 IC?</li> </ul> </li> <li>Development Boards</li> </ul> </li> <li>Integrated Circuit creation <ul> <li>How did you go about designing these chips? <ul> <li>Software?</li> <li>Required Files?</li> </ul> </li> <li>What was your process of getting them manufactured?</li> <li>Tips and tricks for people wanting to manufacture Ics?</li> <li>Challenges and what to avoid?</li> </ul> </li> <li>What changed to enable going from a chip design to a MCU firmware based design?</li> </ul>