[sdiy] $53 Intel Edison dual 500MHz Atom 1GB RAM SOC board has I2S

[Robin Whittle]

Hi Terry,

I was using the term "DSP" rather loosely.  A quick look at this board
made me think it would be possible to have two or more channels of audio
going in and out of the board, with all the audio processing software
written in C++ (GCC - g++), using ordinary 64 bit x86 floating point
instructions.  It has 1GB of RAM and 4GB of Flash.

There would probably be lower power and more compact ways to do intense
DSP work with suitable chips, which would be BGA etc.

I was just thinking of writing from the ivory tower comforts of C++ in a
familiar Linux environment and having the whole thing run on its own
from Flash memory, using a watt or so (I guess, maybe more for the two
cores working hard), all in a space about the size of a matchbox or so,
without requiring heroics with BGA chips or even much surface mount.

This link should provide the latest forum messages of interest:

  https://communities.intel.com/search.jspa?q=I2S+Edison

I haven't looked at them in detail.

In principle it would also be possible to connect a USB audio interface,
but I think there is only one USB connection and the directness and
compactness of an actual CODEC chip, or separate ADC and DAC chips,
going straight into a dual-core Linux SOC costing $53 . . . The 1.8 volt
signal levels will require some level translation, since I think CODECs
normally use 3.3V.

  - Robin


On 2014/12/04 12:24 AM, Terry Shultz wrote:
> Hi Robin,
> 
> Are there any DSP Libs available for the INTEL ATOM?
> 
> We rejected it a few years back at GM due to the lack of any DSP Libs and the ARM platform Could use the iEEE 758 ? libs as a starting point.
> 
> My Memory on this is somewhat dated but it was a point of contention and Intel had already sold off their ARM business to Marvell I believe by that point.
> 
> Perhaps you have more current info and could illuminate this a bit further.
> 
> I presently use Sharc and Ti DSP and several TI device I am using have ARM 9 + DSP. 
> 
> DSP functions are not clear on this device but I2S is always welcome if they are not MUXed with other functions necessary.
> 
> This is yet another thing to look out for on some of the ARM devices as it seems Audio I/O is not as forefront as Video needs and other I/O ports used for Memory, Network etc.
> 
> Just my 2 cents.
> 
> best regards,
> 
> Terry