[sdiy] Microcontrollers

[Paul Maddox]

Tom,

> Anyone out there playing with pretty chunky highspeed microcontrollers?

define chunky ?
Motorola Coldfire?

> I'm trying to build a module right now and I have to throw around a good
> bit of data.  basically I'm sampling two sources at 44khz or so, 
> I'm going to some minor tweaking to the data internally, then spit out
> 8 times the data.  Also need a fair bit of ram to buffer things with.
> I'm kinda leaning towards using a powerpc chip but wondered what other
> people were using for this...

you could use an FPGA...

> Wish Atmel made a really really beefy AVR...

check out the FPSLIC from atmel, 33MIPs AVR and FPGA on a single chip.

Paul
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