SV: Re: [sdiy] Initial SoundBite board reactions

karl dalen dalenkarl at yahoo.se
Wed Jan 30 17:07:43 CET 2008


But this, from an application programmers view seams pretty bad for
being a simple dev board! Are there any forum traffic at FS regarding
this latest dev board and soft tools?

KD


--- Gorka Garcia <torpedo at demadrid.com> skrev:

> What you describe sounds just like my experience with other FSL DSPs
> development kits... it takes some time to start up... 
> 
> Gorka
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> --- synth1 at airmail.net wrote:
> 
> From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1 at airmail.net>
> To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Subject: [sdiy] Initial SoundBite board reactions
> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:49:48 -0600
> 
> I actually got mine 3 weeks ago (right after the New Year), just fired it up 
> tonight.
> 
> a) it is obvious that my board was hand soldered.
> b) when I put the CD in the drive, it thrashed around for at least 5min 
> before the install/home screen appeared. At first I thought the disc was 
> dirty and I cleaned it off :) And this is a very fast dual-core Dell.
> c) there is a pre-loaded app that has a setting (via DIP switch) for 
> outputting 1Khz sine waves on the 3 stereo outputs. Oddly, mine outputs 
> 913Hz sine waves. Hmmm.......
> d) On Page 9 of the manual there is a long tutorial for 
> re-compiling/building the pre-loaded demo project. Except the files are not 
> included (at least I can't find them!). The text refers to "..set the 
> browser to the demo application workspace archive, and then Open." OK, and 
> where would THAT be, exactly??!?
> e) there are 2 very small code examples, 1 in assembly and 1 in C, that do 
> *nothing* but increment a register. Think they could have done something a 
> bit more...errrr...USEFUL?
> 
> BTW: the IC used on this board has a *minimum* order of 90pcs and it's about 
> $13.00 at that quantity.
> 
> Paul S.
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