🚀 go-pugleaf

Recently, I have been playing around with sound digitization, and was able
to get a peek at a commerical unit.  It had a chip in it that was referred
to as a CODEC.  This appears to be a A/D & D/A converter with an audio
compression that they refer to as mu and A law.

Can anyone provide input on what the mu and A law compression schemes are,
and (especially) how I would go about getting a CODEC chip (prices, locations,
etc).  Would a company like Motorola, AT&T, or TI provide evaluation kits
with these chips?

It seems like AT&T Microelectronics is the biggest supplier of such chips,
probably because they are used in digital telephone equipment.  I really
don't know how to go about getting in touch with them about getting a
single-quantity chip (oh well...).

Thanks in advance for any info.  This sounds like a good subject to post
responses to because I think it would be of interest to the net.

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