[DSP-10] New $99.00 EZ-Kit Lite (Blackfin family)

Sat, 13 Dec 2003 04:29:47 -0000

This is always going to be a problem unless development tools are in the public
domain. An FPGA-based DSP solution seems the best approach to me. I did some
experimentation with FPSLICs but they are too slow and have no growth path.
Spartan-3 FPGAs are fast and have enough memory to do useful DSP. Although the
development tools are expensive, any resulting signal processor can be public
domain.

73,

John
KD6OZH

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Bible" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, 12 December, 2003 04:47 UTC
Subject: RE: [DSP-10] New $99.00 EZ-Kit Lite (Blackfin family)

> Hello Perry,
>
> How do you propose to program it?  The Evaluation suite of VisualDSP++ is
> time limited (30 days) and the full version costs $3500.00 the last I
> looked.
>
> The problem we have found is that the DSP tool's by ADI, TI, and Motorola
> are all price out of the reach of what I would call serious hobbiest.  That
> is why we are always developing with the ADSP-218x family because of the
> free (yet no longer supported) DOS tools that come with the very first
> ADDS-21xx-EZLITE kits.
>
> In fact, we are seeing more ham DSP coding being down with a PC and a sound
> card (choose your operating system MS Windows are Linux).
>
> 73,
>
> - Steve, N7HPR
>  ([email protected])
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Perry Ogletree
> > Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:16 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [DSP-10] New $99.00 EZ-Kit Lite (Blackfin family)
> >
> >
> > FYI - The Blackfin family is a higher speed (up to 600 MHz.)
> > 32-bit DSP. The
> > 96 KHz. 4 channel audio codec would make it ideal for a IF DSP.
> > http://www.analog.com/processors/epProductPage/0,2542,BF533%252DHA
> RDWARE,00.html
>
> Attributes:
> -ADSP-BF533 Blackfin� Processor
> -32 MB (16M x 16-bit) SDRAM
> -2 MB (512K x 16-bit x 2) FLASH memory
> -AD1836 96 kHz audio codec w/ 4 input and 6 output RCA jacks
> -ADV7183 video decoder w/ 3 input RCA jacks
> -ADV7171 video encoder w/ 3 output RCA jacks
> -ADM3202 RS-232 line driver/receiver
> -DB9 male connector
> -USB-based debugger interface
> -JTAG ICE 14-pin header
> -SPORT0 connector
> -Evaluation suite of VisualDSP++
> -10 LEDs: 1 power, 1 board reset, 1 USB reset, 1 USB monitor, 6 general
> purpose
> -5 push buttons w/ debounce logic: 1 reset, 4 programmable flag
> -Three 90-pin connectors providing PPI, SPI, EBIU, Timers0-2, UART,
> Programmable Flags, SPORT0, and SPORT1 expansion interfaces for analyzing
> and interfacing
> -CE certified
>
> ADDS-BF533-EZPROMO: $99.00
> Consists of the ADDS-BF533-EZLITE, normally priced at $295.00
> Offer ends February 29, 2004
>
>
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