Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Software filter engines for high end audio and now DSP's
From: Frank J. Carmickle (frankiec_AT_unforgettable.com)
Date: ke helmi 16 2000 - 10:28:17 EST
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>The problem one have to deal with when doing software only implementation
>of a DSP algorithm, is that an ordinary CPU like the Pentium is not a
>DSP. An example, the WFIR filter loop in my filter is implemented with 30
>instructions (executed in about 20 clock cycles), which can be implemented
>with four instructions on a Motorola DSP. So one really wants to use DSPs,
>but there are no cost effective options to build a single DSP-based
>computer (afaik, I would love to hear about any cheap solutions out
>there). What an ordinary CPU has, that an ordinary DSP don't have, is a
>high clock frequency, and it is on that programs like mine survive.
I was going to ask the question yesterday, is the Analog Devices SHARC
chip, found on the Creamware Pulsar, going to be supported by any open
source projects? I know we need to find some DSP's to do our processing.
This looks like the best Candidate to me.
FrankieC
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