[DSP-10] EZKit-Lite

Sun, 10 Mar 2002 11:17:04 -0600

One thing to consider is that if you do that, you tie up a reasonably large,
expensive, and power-hungry Pentium box.  With an external DSP processor,
almost any cheap, small, battery-operated laptop can be used as the
"operator's panel."  This can be a problem for anyone doing portable/mobile
operations (as is planned here on uWave, using the DSP-10 as the i.f.).

Yes, Pentium's come in laptops too, but at significant cost... >$1500-$2000.
A 486 laptop running windows (yes, slowly!) can be had for as little $100.

A second issue may be that there are many flavors of "sound card."  The
"standard" seems to be "SoundBlaster," but there's no guarantee that
motherboards will continue to provide a "100% clone."  If/when that's the
case, which one do you write for ?

Distributed processing DOES have a place in the world, and this is one of
them.

73 Donn
WA2VOI/0

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bdale Garbee [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 10 March 2002 10:23
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [DSP-10] EZKit-Lite
> 
> 
> [email protected] (Perry Ogletree) writes:
> 
> > Some time back, someone asked if there was interest in a 
> "generic" clone of
> > the EZ-Lite.  Seems to be the correct time.
> 
> Why not move the audio processing into the Pentium box using 
> a sound card 
> interface instead of running an external DSP board?
> 
> Bdale, KB0G
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