rkc@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (rkc) (10/19/89)
Note: This is a repost--but I never saw the original make it to the network, and I received 0 responses. Apologies if you're reading it for a second time. I am looking for information on dsp accelerator boards that plug into sun 3/xxx or SPARC systems. I want to know 1. Names of Companies (and phone #'s, if possible) 2. DSP chips the boards are based on. 3. How the user interface is set up. I am especially interested in companies using Weitek's 8000 series chips. Thanks for any help you can provide. -Rob
robison@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu (Bob Robison) (10/19/89)
In article <1575@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> rkc@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (rkc) writes: >I am looking for information on dsp accelerator boards that plug into sun >3/xxx or SPARC systems. I want to know > 1. Names of Companies (and phone #'s, if possible) > 2. DSP chips the boards are based on. > 3. How the user interface is set up. >I am especially interested in companies using Weitek's 8000 series chips. > Well, I'm not sure if this would count as an accelerator but Valley Enterprises (717) 668-3737 (Tamaqua, PA) makes a VME board with four DSP-32C chips on board. They supply development software for the SUN in the form of C compiler, assembler, and linker. They also have a small applications library. The board ranges in price from about 6K to 12K depending on the number of AT&T DSP32C chips and the amount of RAM. Software is about $3000 for a full complement. I have not used the board but we expect to order it once our capital equipment monies have become available :-). The only other DSP board I've seen for the SUN is a version of the SKY Challenger which is TMS32020 based. I have used this and it is OK, but I wasn't overly impressed. Hope this helps, bob ---- -- Bob Robison - Southwest Research Institute, Electromagnetics Div. robison@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu {sun!texsun, gatech!petro, uunet!cs.utexas.edu}!swrinde!dfsun1!robison
jeremym@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Jeremy Maris) (10/27/89)
Loughborough Sound Images products LSI (+44 509 231843) have a DSP56001 VME board for the Sun. It provides two 16bit channels of A/D and D/A conversion, 8Kwords of program RAM and 16Kwords of data RAM. They provide source for drivers and use Motorola cross development software. At present, software support is for a single user on a Sun 3 workstation. Cost: L.3495 Contact Keith Ahluwalia for more details -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeremy Maris,Experimental Psychology,University of Sussex,Brighton,England. Janet: jeremym@uk.ac.sussex.syma Nsfnet: jeremym@syma.sussex.ac.uk Bitnet: jeremym%sussex.syma@ukacrl.bitnet Usenet: ...mcvax!ukc!epvax!jeremym