[sdiy] Hardware convolution box?

[Veronica Merryfield]

> Your choices for "DSP" now are to look at something like the Analog Devices Blackfin/Sharc family, look at FPGA (who wants to roll their own DSP) or a fast ARM Processor (like the Axoloti).

Your choices from off the shelf DSP vendors is now Analog or TI. Analog have a nice multicore device (ARM + 2 DSPs). The stripped down version with 1 DDR channel might be a nice fit (SC584). I have worked with the 589. Ti have an ARM + DSP as well in a couple of ranges. I last used OMAPs devices over a decade ago :(

I have rolled my own too, or rather rolled high performance parallel MAC engines for doing matrix and vector math - does that count?

> I guess the problem is that ultimately it comes down to the market appetite for such products. The Chameleon was great, but never really got the market it needed to survive.

The market seems to be diminishing for many forms of dedicated hardware products other than in niche markets, and there are many in the music world if NAMM is anything to go by. Getting a company going and keeping it afloat is a hard ask these days in this market.

Veronica