[sdiy] New DSP for SDIY?

[Eric Brombaugh]

Antti Huovilainen wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Eric Brombaugh wrote:
> 
>> Just got a press release from TI about a new family of DSCs (Digital
>> Signal Controllers):
>>
>> http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/landing/f280xx-piccolo/index.htm
> 
> Hopefully they have more sane programming model than the C5xxx series. 
> Assembly coding on those was pure pain as they don't insert wait states 
> when there's a pipeline conflict.

Argh! I remember doing some work on the AT&T DSP3210 many years ago. 
They also required the assembler to resolve pipeline latency. Made 
hand-coding an 'interesting' experience - lots of NOPs required.

Anyway, these are based on the 'C2000 architecture, not 'C5000. No idea 
what that implies about the CPU core capabilities though, and I'm sure 
their press release materials wouldn't reveal any warts like you mentioned.

Wait & See.

Eric