buchholz@chinet.chi.il.us (Ronald L. Buchholz) (04/11/91)
Greetings-- I am interested in a DSP board for my 386SX machine with the following features (more or less): 1) Motorola 56001 DSP chip (a must) 2) The board must use either a short or long PC card-slot 3) A prototyping area 4) On board A/D-D/A converters with filters 5) Enough RAM and EEPROM to be usable A blank (unpopulated board) would be fine as long as proper documentation can be obtained to use it. My primary interest right now is audio. Can anyone out there recommend a manufacturer of such a device? Much thanks in advance. If there is sufficient interest, I will gladly summarize and post a list of responses. -- afdvcz
markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier) (04/14/91)
In article <1991Apr10.171617.19360@chinet.chi.il.us>, buchholz@chinet.chi.il.us (Ronald L. Buchholz) writes: > I am interested in a DSP board for my 386SX machine with the following > features (more or less): > > 1) Motorola 56001 DSP chip (a must) > 2) The board must use either a short or long PC card-slot > 3) A prototyping area > 4) On board A/D-D/A converters with filters > 5) Enough RAM and EEPROM to be usable In both the April Radio-Electronics and Elektor Electronics, they had a press release for the "DSPerato" board. An IBM-XT adapter card layout with a 56001. About 2/3 of the card is prototype area. A/D converters are on a seperate plug in module/card. $299 for the basic card, $149 for the A/D card (two different flavors). $99 for the software pack. Signal Systems 15105 SE East Ave. Milwaukie, Oregon 97267 Anyone actually seen this board ? Mark Zenier markz@ssc.uucp mzenier@polari.uucp
dmassie@well.sf.ca.us (Dana C. Massie) (04/19/91)
In article <1991Apr10.171617.19360@chinet.chi.il.us>, buchholz@chinet.chi.il.us (Ronald L. Buchholz) writes: > I am interested in a DSP board for my 386SX machine with the following > features (more or less): > > 1) Motorola 56001 DSP chip (a must) > 2) The board must use either a short or long PC card-slot > 3) A prototyping area > 4) On board A/D-D/A converters with filters > 5) Enough RAM and EEPROM to be usable Ariel Corporation has a bunch of DSP boards for IBM, Mac, Sun, HP, VME using 56001, 320, 96000, i860, and ATT dsp32. They have perhaps the best interactive debugger for the 56001 and my experiences with the company have all been excellent. Contact Info: Ariel Corporation 433 River Road Highland Park, NJ 08904 tel: (201) 249-2900 fax: (201) 249-2123 dsp bbs: (201) 249-2124 dana c. massie dmassie@well.sf.ca.us
mazer@asterix.asterix.cns.caltech.edu (Jamie Mazer) (04/21/91)
>Ariel Corporation has a bunch of DSP boards for IBM, Mac, Sun, >HP, VME using 56001, 320, 96000, i860, and ATT dsp32. > >They have perhaps the best interactive debugger for the 56001 >and my experiences with the company have all been excellent. Speaking of which ... Is anyone using the Ariel DSP-56 board on a 386/486 pc running *UNIX* of any flavor? We're really interested in the ariel hardware and would like to use a 486-pc platform - but it MUST run X and Unix. The DSP-56 looks really nice, but the hardware seems to be supported only under MSDOS, and I don't have time to hack a device driver/library/debuggers etc to get the hardware running under unix. Has anyone done this already? One possibility is to use a sparcstation instead of a 486 box as the base platform, but we'd prefer to go with a pc, for a number of other reasons. Ater there other 56K (or C30,96K,32C etc :-) boards with A/D and D/A hardware comparable to the Ariel running under unix? I really like what they have, I just don't have time to start my project over again under a new operating system! Comments? Flames? /Jamie -- 1st: mazer@asterix.cns.caltech.edu /-------------------------------------\ 2nd: mazer@bek-owl.cns.caltech.edu /"Caltech: ... science steals your soul,\ 3rd: JMazer@caltech.bitnet \ don't come here unless you have to." / ugh: mazer@smaug.caltech.edu \-------------------------------------/
robertl@bucsf.bu.edu (Robert La Ferla) (04/22/91)
In article <MAZER.91Apr20170821@asterix.asterix.cns.caltech.edu> mazer@asterix.asterix.cns.caltech.edu (Jamie Mazer) writes: > Are there other 56K (or C30,96K,32C etc :-) boards with A/D and D/A > hardware comparable to the Ariel running under unix? I really like > what they have, I just don't have time to start my project over > again under a new operating system! Yes, there is a fantastic UNIX/DSP development on the NeXT. Each NeXT has a Motorola 56001 DSP, Bug-56 DSP symbolic debugger, macro cross-assembler, and simulator. Ariel makes the QuintProcessor which is a NeXTBus board with FIVE 27Mhz 56001 DSPs if you need the extra horsepower! Singular Solutions makes a Analog/Digital interface for the DSP. It features two channels of 16-bit delta-sigma conversion and 64 times oversampling. As for PC support, the NeXT has a program called SoftPC which allows you to run PC programs in a window - it's very good too I've seen Windows 3.0 running on it in color. A company called Pencom makes Co-Xist which allows you to run X11R4 w/Motif in another window. Well, this may be more than what you are looking for but then again... Singular Solutions (818) 792-9567 Ariel (201) 249-2900 NeXT (800) 848-NEXT Robert La Ferla Lotus Development Corporation Advanced Technology Group / Improv
kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L Shephard) (04/23/91)
In article <MAZER.91Apr20170821@asterix.asterix.cns.caltech.edu> mazer@asterix.asterix.cns.caltech.edu (Jamie Mazer) writes: > >>Ariel Corporation has a bunch of DSP boards for IBM, Mac, Sun, >>HP, VME using 56001, 320, 96000, i860, and ATT dsp32. >> >>They have perhaps the best interactive debugger for the 56001 >>and my experiences with the company have all been excellent. > >Speaking of which ... > > One possibility is to use a sparcstation instead of a 486 box as >the base platform, but we'd prefer to go with a pc, for a number >of other reasons. > > Ater there other 56K (or C30,96K,32C etc :-) boards with A/D and D/A >hardware comparable to the Ariel running under unix? I really like >what they have, I just don't have time to start my project over >again under a new operating system! > > Comments? Flames? Well for the price of a i486, Unix, DSP board combination, which works out to be $3000 for 486, $1000 for Unix, and $2500 for DSP board == $6500. Those prices are approximate. For less than $6500 you could buy a NeXTstation. People no flames, just listen. The OS supports the DSP, it is integrated in the system. You do need to add A/D conversion but D/A is built in. It comes with the Ariel Debugger and all the tolls yopu need for development. For an integrated DSP development system you can't beat it, esp. if you are in education. Since you are at Caltech, I assume you can get educational pricing on a NeXT. For a little more tha a DSP board would cost you the NeXT is available. I am biased because I'm doing my project for my MSEE on a NeXT and it is A/D and DSP related. Yes I did buy a NeXT and one of the main reasons was the direct support for the DSP in the OS and hardware integration. BTW - If you reason for the SPARC as a second choice si X11 then don't count the NeXT out. X11 is available for the NeXT it just isn't sold by NeXT Inc. The NeXT is also a cheaper alternative than the SPARC. It is also a single neat little package. You also don't have to worry if the DSP hardware will function properly with the system, it's part of the system. > >/Jamie > > >-- >1st: mazer@asterix.cns.caltech.edu /-------------------------------------\ >2nd: mazer@bek-owl.cns.caltech.edu /"Caltech: ... science steals your soul,\ >3rd: JMazer@caltech.bitnet \ don't come here unless you have to." / >ugh: mazer@smaug.caltech.edu \-------------------------------------/ Think about the NeXT it is a viable alternative and a good one. KeNT -- /* -The opinions expressed are my own, not my employers. */ /* For I can only express my own opinions. */ /* */ /* Kent L. Shephard : email - kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com */