burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio) (11/30/90)
20/10 questions: :-) Does anyone know of a vendor who makes attached signal processing cards for an HP300 series workstation, running UNIX and programming in C or FORTRAN? I can only find companies that provide cards for BASIC or PASCAL workstation varieties. Ideally, the card should be able to do a 1Meg or so FFT, and the price can be high if necessary :-) Do any of the HP dudes know if WGL (Waveform Generation Language) that controls an AWS (Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer) can run under UNIX? Our current BASIC (blecch!) quirkstation is a 9000/310, so it is VERY slooooooow. We have the HP RMB emulator program under HP-UX, if that helps... The HP reps here said that you couldn't because WGL needs an antique variety of display screen only available on a 310(!) Is this really true? ********************************************************************* Tony Burzio * Buy American, Martin Marietta Labs * mmlab!burzio@uunet.uu.net * or don't complain about the economy! *********************************************************************
albert@hpuplca.HP.COM ( Albert Alcorn ) (11/30/90)
The main reason that WGL will not run under RMB-UX is that WGL uses a lot of code in compiled subroutines (CSUBS). This is not portable to RMB-UX. The Display Compatability card will run (I think) with hp-ux but not with X-Windows. Much of what WGL does can be duplicated in BASIC with simple subs. For example: 10 SUB Ramp(Workingwave(*),Wstart,Wstop) 20 Stepsize=2/(Wstop-Wstart+1) 30 Stepval=-1 40 FOR I=Wstart to Wstop 50 Workingwave(I)=Stepval 60 Stepval=Stepval+Stepsize 70 NEXT I 80 SUBEND I have heard that someone had performed just about all of the WGL functions with Mathmatica. Albert Alcorn HP Systems Engineer (408) 988-7304
kk@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Konstantinos Konstantinides) (12/01/90)
Try TETRA Systems Incorporated. They developed a DSP card based on the TMS320xxx Talk to Ho John Lee: tetra!hlee@uunet.UU.NET K. Konstantinides kk@hpkronos.hpl.hp.com
yamamoto@rasc3.kurasc.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Mamoru Yamamoto) (12/01/90)
In article <51@gauss.mmlai.UUCP> burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio) writes: >20/10 questions: :-) >Does anyone know of a vendor who makes attached signal processing >cards for an HP300 series workstation, running UNIX and programming >in C or FORTRAN? I have a product note for a signal processing borad "SUPERCARD SC-2/VME" which can be used with HP9000/3xx HP-UX 7.0. It says that this board calculates FFT (1K complex to complex, bit reversal, memory to memory) in 1.0 msec. The following is the address of the company, CSP Inc. 40 Linnell Circle, Billerica, MA 01821, U.S.A., 617-272-6020 (FAX 508-663-0150) Mamoru Yamamoto Radio Atmospheric Science Center, Kyoto University JAPAN
briand@sumax.UUCP (Brian Daugherty) (12/08/90)
>In article <51@gauss.mmlai.UUCP> burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio) writes: >>20/10 questions: :-) >>Does anyone know of a vendor who makes attached signal processing >>cards for an HP300 series workstation, running UNIX and programming >>in C or FORTRAN? > Ariel makes an inexpensive card that fits into a DIO slot inside the HP 9000/300 family computers. It is pretty cheap, and supports HP-UX, Pascal Workstation OS, and BASIC. FFT time is about 5 mSecs, as I recall. I don't have the address handy, but they are located on the East coast of the US. Hope this is useful. Brian