[sdiy] Looking for DSP development system

[Alwyn Nixon-Lloyd]

Hi,

> 
> > Depends on what you mean by DSP.... :-)  I purchased a Memec Spartan 3
> > development board with an XC3S400 on it....it will probably be able to
> > outperform most DSP chips, but you write everything in Verilog or VHDL
> > instead of C...(cost of the board is about $200, development software is
> > free)....
> 
> That's the sort of thing I'm looking for. Fast and cheap. Especially cheap.
> ?:)


I bought an analogue devices dsp dev board (the BF533-ez-lite)  for
AUD$250 while it was on special.  It has 6 outputs, 4 inputs (if you use a
48Khz sample rate. Itcan do 96khz, but why bother, my dx7 sounds great :P )

it comes with a compiler as well.

it is only 16 bit fixed point, but the compiler can do floats if you want
to.  Its has a 600Mhz clock which means it can do something like 1.2Gig
Multiply add's a second. 

i plan to this week sit down and get some stuff running on it, as i've
only had it for a few week, however, has anyone else used one? i've been
trying to find some sites with some nice simple code but most of it is for
the previous generation 21xx chips.  

Cheers,
Alwyn


> 
> Regards
>     David 
> 
>