docs(audio): record the episodic half of the $D418 static - #274
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The architecture note presented the DAC table/chip mismatch as the whole answer to the audible static. It was the steady half. The episodic half — 0.5-1.5 s bursts lifting the noise floor 4-10 dB, with upward creep across a capture — is the Ultimate's Bus Operation Mode at its `Quiet` default with a TeensyROM+ in the cartridge port, which `Writes` clears. The end-user framing already lives in caveats.md and troubleshooting.md, framed as a TeensyROM+ link symptom. What was missing is the architecture side: those burst statistics are what made a traffic-coupled mechanism look plausible on the host write path, and so are why the halt-splitting work was pursued as an audio-quality fix. Recording it here keeps a future measurement from re-attributing the same bursts to audio.py.
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docs/architecture/audio.mdpresented the DAC table/chip mismatch as the whole answer to the audible static on the 4-bit path. It was the steady half.The episodic half — bursts of 0.5-1.5 s lifting the noise floor 4-10 dB, arriving irregularly, with the floor creeping upward across a long capture — is the Ultimate's Bus Operation Mode sitting at its
Quietfirmware default with a TeensyROM+ in the cartridge port.Writes(orDyn. & Writes) clears it, and nothing under[audio]/[dsp]or in the write path moves it.The end-user framing already ships in
caveats.mdandtroubleshooting.md, where it reads as a TeensyROM+ link symptom. This adds the architecture side and links across to it, because the two are the same finding seen from different ends: burst statistics gathered under that setting are what made a traffic-coupled mechanism look plausible on the host write path, and so are why the halt-splitting work in the sections above was pursued as an audio-quality fix at all.With both components accounted for — and neither being bus-halt tick loss — a future measurement that finds episodic noise on this class of rig should check the bus mode before treating the number as being about anything in
audio.py.Also softens the opening sentence of "A DAC table only applies to the chip it was measured on", which claimed the mismatch was the static.
Docs only, no code change.
make site-checkandtests/test_architecture_index.pypass.