Hacking Behringers Ultranet for a FPGA-based DIY-Audiomixer

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

In this episode I bring a broken Behringer P16-I back to life to build a FPGA-based audiomixer.

For this I'm using an Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 board with a SAMD21 microcontroller and an Intel Cyclone 10LP FPGA for the signal-processing. The audio-output to the analog world is done using a SPDIF adapter as well as a PDM-based DAC.

The whole project can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/xn--nding-jua/UltranetReceiver

Detailed description of the project on my website: https://www.pcdimmer.de/index.php/hardware/fpga/ultranet-receiver

More projects on the main-page: https://www.pcdimmer.de

Disclaimer: This video is brought to you by: "me" :-) I'm not sponsored and do not make any money from it. I use Youtube as a kind of vlog to share my hobby projects with you.

Content
0:00:00 Intro
0:00:56 Broken audio hardware!?
0:02:56 Analysis of ICs and signals
0:07:43 FPGA-design
0:11:19 Audiotests
0:18:14 DIY analog output
0:20:46 PCB and outlook