[comp.lang.c] Motorola DSP56000

jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) (05/29/88)

      Is anyone using the DSP56000 for applications other than signal
processing?  Motorola supposedly has a C compiler for the beast.
Is there anything that looks like an operating system for the thing?
We're looking at it as a controller for a mobile robot.

      I never thought I'd see a 24-bit word machine again.

					John Nagle

bww@hpqtdlz.HP.COM (Brian Woodroffe) (06/07/88)

I went to a public Motorola presentation yesterday (mostly
about the M88000-Risc set), and they told us that there
was available *now* a C compliler for the DSP56000; I wrote
down its product number as 'DSP56KCC' and I was quoted
a price of 500pounds for the version to run on a PC.  I
was also told there a versions for VAX-VMS,  MAC-2's, and
(I think) SUN's.  No doubt the USA domestic price will be
$500 even though the current exchange rate is about $1.80!

Motorola also stated that the same tools will be available
for the DSP96000; whether this is just because they are code
compatible or whether it will use the extra features in the
DSP96000, he did not say.

I hope this helps.
Brian Woodroffe.
Queensferry Telecomms Division - Hewlett Packard.

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