freed@trane.UUCP (10/31/87)
Does anybody have any exerience with the use of DSP chips such as the TI TMS320C20 with graphics frame buffers? What are their advantages and disadvantages? Thanks in advance
spf@clyde.UUCP (11/02/87)
In article <308@trane.UUCP> freed@trane.UUCP (Erik Freed) writes: >Does anybody have any exerience with the use of DSP chips such as the >TI TMS320C20 with graphics frame buffers? What are their advantages >and disadvantages? Thanks in advance Check out the AT&T Pixel Machine, which uses many DSP32 chips. Their marketing brochure from SIGGRAPH gives 800/949-1387 as the number to call for more info. Steve Frysinger *** 1. Yes, I work for AT&T Bell Laboratories 2. No, I don't/didn't work on the Pixel Machine
michael@orcisi.UUCP (11/03/87)
The TI TMS32010 Applications manual describes some graphics applications.
rsb@rayssde.UUCP (11/19/87)
In article <308@trane.UUCP> freed@trane.UUCP (Erik Freed) writes: >Does anybody have any exerience with the use of DSP chips such as the >TI TMS320C20 with graphics frame buffers? What are their advantages >and disadvantages? Thanks in advance Could not reach Erik Freed at the given address (freed@trane). Is the correct address freed@aurora? The TMS320 family provides a lot of power for graphics. To summarize 3-4 years of experience in developing graphics packages for the family, here are my main observations: Advantages- high-speed: both for numeric (multiplications) and standard operations. available: you can buy 32020s readily. I haven't followed the 'c20s recently. affordable: around $100 for the 32020's in singles, volume much better supported: some would argue about how well, but support exists and does help. reasonable architecture: very general purpose programming ease: relatively good interfacing ease: relatively good Disadvantages- limited address space: 64k words is not a lot for graphics applications (we increase the address space through an external segment address register. Clearly a kludge, but it works) Raymond S. Burns galaxia!insight!ray@rayssd InSight Graphics Portsmouth, RI; (401)-683-2189 UUCP: {gatech|cbosgd|uiucdcs|ihnp4}!rayssd!galaxia!insight!ray