Back in 1984, Midge Ure appeared on TV to reveal our MIDI guitar synth future with his Roland GR-700

I think I’d have to spend many a long hour sitting in the studio working with the thing before I take it out on stage,” he ...
IEEE

An 18mW 90 to 770MHz synthesizer with agile auto-tuning for digital TV-tuners

Abstract: An 18mW 90-to-770MHz I/Q synthesizer is fabricated in a 1.2V 0.11mum CMOS process. The architecture is optimized to achieve low power and wide tuning range. A divide-by-3.5 7b VCO with an ...
IEEE

Phase Coherent Frequency Hopping in Direct Digital Synthesizers and Phase Locked Loops

Abstract: Phase coherent, frequency hopping direct digital synthesizer (DDS) and Type-II phase locked loop (PLL) circuits are presented in this paper. The proposed approach eliminates the memory ...
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“We wrote 24K Magic when Uptown Funk was No 1. So if you hear the same spirit in that song, that's why”: A decade on, we look back at the musical theory and retro ge…

As modern classics go, 2016's 24K Magic, the title track of Bruno Mars' third studio album, is a solid entry in the canon, ...