Odp: [sdiy] DSP kit recommend

[Paul Maddox]

Neil,

> Oh, I *know* how much the ARM SDK costs...that's why I wangled a free copy
> out them!  Well, they _are_ sponsoring my PhD :-)

you lucky bugger!
I have an Atmel AT91 starter kit sitting at home doing nothing, because of
this license issue...
Want to buy it?

> Seriously, those little DSPs from Alesis look like a lot of fun, and they
> can squeeze in 1024 operations per sample.

This is 49MIPs
the DSP in the Chameleon runs at 100MIPs :-)
It also has pipelining and you can do two simultaneous memory moves at the
same time as most instructions so if you're clever with your code, you can
get more than 100MIPs performance from them..

> And small enough that enjoyable DIY can be had!

aye, this is an advantage :-)

Paul