Ken Shirriff on Nostr: I opened up a mystery chip; it turned out to be a "switched capacitor filter" from ...
I opened up a mystery chip; it turned out to be a "switched capacitor filter" from 1984. Filters are important circuits, for example, adjusting the bass or treble in an audio signal. This chip, the MF10, was popular because it combined two filters into an easy-to-use chip. Let's take a closer look…
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