This is the Doc file for the AMI S50240 Top Octave Synthesizer IC. Forrest M. Mims, Engineer's Notebook (I) 1980 Edition, Page 46. ********* This chips outputs NEED to be either buffered with an active follower gate (CMOS) or current limited by 100K Ohm resistors if more than one output is to be played at once to protect the outputs!! ********* It requires a clock source of 2.00024 MHz. It has 12 separate moduli dividers to produce the 12 tone equally tempered scale by frequency division of a square wave clock. The notes and divisors for its outputs are thus: C8 C8# D8 D8# E8 F8 F8# G8 G8# A8 A8# B8 C9 : Notes 478 451 426 402 379 358 338 319 301 284 268 253 239 : Divisors And these result in frequencies of: -- IC Pin: Divisor: Note: Frequency: Should be: 16 478 C8 4184.6025 4186.0088 4 451 C8# 4435.1220 4434.9219 5 426 D8 4695.3991 4698.6361 6 402 D8# 4975.7214 4978.0316 7 379 E8 5277.6781 5274.0408 8 358 F8 5587.2626 5587.6516 9 338 F8# 5917.8698 5919.9107 10 319 G8 6270.3448 6271.9269 11 301 G8# 6645.3156 6644.8751 12 284 A8 7043.0986 7040 <-- If A4 = 440 Hz 13 268 A8# 7463.5821 7458.6202 14 253 B8 7906.0870 7902.1329 15 239 C9 8369.2050 8372.0182 -- 1 SUPPLY +11 -> +16 VDC 2 CLOCK 3 GND -- Copyright (c)1997 by Richard Steven Walz for Limited Public Domain Non-Commercial Use Only - All Commercial Rights retained by the Author. -- -Steve Walz rstevew@armory.com ftp://ftp.armory.com:/pub/user/rstevew -Electronics Site!! 1000 Files/50 Dirs!! http://www.armory.com/~rstevew Europe:(Italy) ftp://ftp.cised.unina.it:/pub/electronics/ftp.armory.com Oz:.AU ftp://ftp.peninsula.apana.org.au:/pub/electronics/ftp.armory.com