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

[Lyle Johnson]

> 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.

But if the FPGA-based DSP is a programmable one, we are back to the same
problem: assembler/linker/compiler/simulator.

Otherwise, it becomes a dedicated FPGA-DSP "programmed" in VHDL.

I would think it would be not so very difficult to create at least a macro
assembler for the available DSPs.

But then, I am not a software type, so I am not a candidate to write one :-/

For lower end apps, initially at least, where 20 to 30 MMIPS of 16-bit DSP
performance is enough, the new dsPIC has free tools...

-Lyle KK7P