[sdiy] XMOS board with Wavefront DSP (x3) and CODEC boards

[KD KD]

Nice project....

>performs automatic memory addressing for FIFO's, and also has functions for
>log/antilog - and it does these at 50 MIP's.  So doing a single tap for an FIR
>for the DSP-1K takes one instruction (and one instruction cycle!) while the
>same function on a conventional CPU (like the XMOS core) takes up to six
>(load coefficient, load sample, multiply/accumulate, shift accumulator right
>to maintain decimal point, increment coefficient pointer, increment sample
>pointer).  So 50 DSP-1K MIPS is comparable to 300 CPU MIPs.

Interesting comparison!

2012/3/6, Mikko Helin <maohelin at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Noticed this on diystompboxes forum where Mark Seel has designed quite
> a powerful system targeted for guitar FX use mainly but could be used
> for some other musical purposes as well:
>
> http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=96073.0
>
> Reminds me of Alesis ION / Micron / Akai Miniak synths which were
> quite similar in design.
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