I second the motion.

Multicore general-purpose processors, and re-purposed graphics and cell-type 
processors, should stay ahead of this kind of thing, especially considering 
how much harder it is to develop software for DSP systems.

Regards,
Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Dobson" 
To: 
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 6:47 AM
Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Csound on a DSP


> Are ADI actively promoting and supporting/developing this? I thought the 
> ADI Extended Csound was now pretty well dead. The 6-channel Sphinx card we 
> (CDP) got years ago is now only fit for a museum, as it only had drivers 
> for Win95 (and possibly NT), and was more than a little flaky in that it 
> would crash at the slightest provocation.
>
> Indeed I have a drawer full of miscellaneous ADI kit (including an 
> unopened and unused Sharc 21065 EZKIT - offers?) that would probably pass 
> for cool modern art if glued or nailed to a plinth and spray-painted; but 
> I have no expectations of ever plugging them into a machine and actually 
> using them any more.
>
> And if we want f/p double precision, then we would need to rely mainly on 
> accelerator hardware such as the latest nVidia GPUs (1 Tflop for the price 
> of an iMac), etc. Or a custom FPGA of some kind.
>
> Richard Dobson
>
>
>
> victor wrote:
>> Except that no one can buy it.
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Gogins" 
>> To: 
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 8:20 PM
>> Subject: [Csnd] Re: Csound on a DSP
>>
>>
>>> There already is a port of Csound onto an Analog Devices board, by Barry 
>>> Vercoe, the original author of Csound. This is a commercial product.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Mike
>>
>
>
>
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