Got a message today about this. Price seems to be about $150 for the board.
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=SYMP_SOUNDBITE
I think there may be Blackfin boards in the same price bracket now, but I think affordable DSP seems to be coming.
What about the AL3101 ? It costs under 10 $.
What about the AL3101 ? It costs under 10 $.
That’s for a chip. The AL3101 evaluation board from the maker costs $225.
http://www.wavefrontsemi.com/products/AL3101pop.html#producteval
It’s also peaked at 50 MIPS, the Freescale quotes 180 MIPS. The AN3101 is aimed more at certain types of FX. It’s done very good work in ‘Miss Parker’. The 1000 off price for the AN3101 is around $4. The 1000 off price for the DSP56371 is around $9.
Basically different league devices. What I really want is a next generation version of the Chameleon, not a stompbox.
I ordered the uclinux blackfin stamp board once I saw that it was used in the original Looperlative. Since I work with linux during the day, it was/is a relatively easy learning curve… There’s also a bare pcb available for $70 - check out http://www.blackstamp.net
I’m also interested in a next-generation chameleon type of device…
Doug
What I really want is a next generation version of the Chameleon, not a stompbox.
I’m with you on that one. I remember back before the old Chameleon forum went defunct there was talk of creating an open source variant of the Chameleon. I was happy to see an email floating around in my inbox from Mr. Maddox bringing light back to that topic.
Trying to understand what is missing here, how does this FPGA synth list archive link relate to a discussion on DSP eval boards?
Trying to follow along, keep on same page etc. Help me out with a little more than a one liner please.
Best
SmashTV
well, an fpga can be even better than a dsp, cause xilinx dev tool is absolutely free, and its easier to migrate from one platform to another , that motorola sohuld be considered obscure imho.
here is a good link for starters with integer arithmetic
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=113341
fpga can even synthetise floating point units tho.
well, an fpga can be even better than a dsp, cause xilinx dev tool is absolutely free, and its easier to migrate from one platform to another , that motorola sohuld be considered obscure imho.
It’s hard to define “better” - I wouldn’t rate something as being better purely because some dev tools are free…
An FPGA can be better than a DSP because it is much more flexible - it’s like an empty container that you can turn into anything (including a DSP). At the same time, an FPGA is worse than a DSP because it is an empty container! You have to do a lot of work to get an FPGA to do anything, whereas with a DSP, it already does what it does, you just write code for it…
Doug
An FPGA can be better than a DSP because it is much more flexible - it’s like an empty container that you can turn into anything (including a DSP). At the same time, an FPGA is worse than a DSP because it is an empty container! You have to do a lot of work to get an FPGA to do anything, whereas with a DSP, it already does what it does, you just write code for it…
… very good description!
Greets, Roger
Mmmm, super chameleon.
I think you just have to set off a nuke near it’s island and then it grows or something 
I just checked the schematics of this Freescale SOUNDBITE DSP board,
and in addition to USB it does have I2C and SDI/SPI interfaces.
with the free development kit, one can program in Assembler or C.
do you think:
would there be ANY chance that one could connect this directly to the MB core IIC Interface (J4)?
sounds like an incredibly useful combination to me without a PC/MAC :
3 stereo in
3 stereo out
microphone input
would there be ANY chance that one could connect this directly to the MB core IIC Interface (J4)?
Yes. A good chance, I’d say.
thanks, stryd,
I’ll dive into that one (…mhh…thinking about my very basic I2C programming skills from 15 years ago…)
Sounds like a great idea! Now I need to find out how to get a UAD card running in a midibox.
The UAD-1 is quite interesting - it’s actually a chip from a video card. There seem to be quite a few projects using graphics hardware for general purpose computation…
excuse me , uad stuff is no ordinary video card, just like this isnt the yesterdays vaporware thread.
excuse me
OK, you’re excused, you can leave now…
uad stuff is no ordinary video card
I didn’t say it was a video card…I said it uses a chip from a video card…
I’d look into ps3linux if I’d want to learn parallel audio processing -.-
I’d look into ps3linux if I’d want to learn parallel audio processing -.-
Hmmm, wouldn’t I have to buy a PS3 for that? For that kind of money, I could buy the Blackfin board AND the SoundBite or Spartan board…
And what if I wanted to learn serial audio processing…? ;D