[comp.sys.mac] DSP boards for the Mac II

lipa@POLYA.STANFORD.EDU (William Lipa) (05/19/89)

Is anyone aware of any digital signal processing boards for the Mac II or Mac
IIcx? I need to do 512-point Fourier transforms in under 10 milliseconds.

Bill Lipa

jrg@Apple.COM (John R. Galloway) (05/19/89)

In article <CMM.0.88.611529147.lipa@polya.stanford.edu> lipa@POLYA.STANFORD.EDU (William Lipa) writes:
>Is anyone aware of any digital signal processing boards for the Mac II or Mac
>IIcx? I need to do 512-point Fourier transforms in under 10 milliseconds.

Spectral Innovations at (408) 727-1314 in Santa Clara, CA offers a MACII board
with a AT&T DSP32 on it with data acquisition hw and analysis sw. I have
no experience with it and am just quoting from AT&T promotional literature.


apple!jrg	John R. Galloway, Jr.       contract programmer, San Jose, Ca

These are my views, NOT Apple's, I am a GUEST here, not an employee!!

roger@grenada.UUCP (Roger Corman) (05/25/89)

In article <CMM.0.88.611529147.lipa@polya.stanford.edu> lipa@POLYA.STANFORD.EDU (William Lipa) writes:
>Is anyone aware of any digital signal processing boards for the Mac II or Mac
>IIcx? I need to do 512-point Fourier transforms in under 10 milliseconds.
>
>Bill Lipa

Digidesign makes a NuBus board called Sound Accelerator.  It is based on the
Motorola 56001 (same chip as the NeXT uses) and seems very well designed.
The technical specs claim "1024 point FFT < 4 ms."  There is an article
by the board designers in the current issue of Computer Music Journal.
Digidesign offers developer discounts and provide utilities to integrate
DSP code into your Mac programs.  I recommend checking it out.

Digidesign
1360 Willow Road Ste. 101
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(415) 327-8811

I have no affiliation with the company and I own one of the boards.

Roger Corman