[sdiy] Raspberry pi(e)

[mark at arpeggi8.com]

Yeah neat kit :).  The amount of cool stuff it can do is not to be under estimated...  A decent intel core 2 duo uses over 50% of its processor to decode HD vid (720p), this part does that and runs android at the same time.

Can't wait for them to release apple pi, the dual A9 version <grin>

(I made that up...I mean imagine kids working on programming modern ARM cores, I had to do college with a 6502 board....)

Mark
------Original Message------
From: Neil Johnson
To: Mark Smith
Cc: Matthew Smith
Cc: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Raspberry pi(e)
Sent: 6 Mar 2012 12:03

<mark at arpeggi8.com> wrote:
> If you want to know what it can do look up the Roku LT media player.
>
> The two are one and the same - I've been working on the soc used inside....

Hi Mark :)

*waves*

Yeah, its a BCM2835 Apps Processor: Videocore4 with an ARM11 and, for
the Raspberry Pi, 256MB of SDRAM on top.  For audio you either have
the ARM to play with, or if you can stomach it you can write fragment
shaders to do 2D data processing at much faster speeds.  OpenCL is not
available so it'll be old-fashioned OpenGL shader code, which is a bit
hacky but works:

http://www.mathematik.uni-dortmund.de/~goeddeke/gpgpu/tutorial.html

Cheers,
Neil
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