Question

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Your employer has asked you to design a digital, programmable guitar effects pedal. The pedal ithe pedal usingg sofiware on a P to doamload a nw conniguration othe pedal. You plan io market this as a high-quality product for expert musicians. You expect to sell a few thousand units each year for around $600 dollars each

The question is:

What kind of part (or parts) would you use to build the major digital parts of this system? (For example e.g. “an FPGA”, or “an embedded PC”...). Provide 4 reasons for to support your answer.

Answer 1

Embedded PC : It is a specialised computer that is implemented as a part of a larger device, intelligent system or installation. It is more specific to one task.

FPGA : It is a semiconductor IC which can be programmed any time after manufacturing.

Since we need to design most of digital part which can programmed. Therefore we would like to use FPGA because of the following advantages :

1. FPGA can be programmed at logic level. Hence it can implement faster and parallel processing of signals.

2. FPGA can be programmed any number of times.

3. FPGA is readily available and cheaper in cost. It is flexible to use.

4. FPGA software takes care of routing, placement and timing. This makes lesser manual intervention.

5. FPGA can be upgraded and easy to troubleshoot the problem.