Low Cost DSP Freescale DSP evaluation Kit

[DrBunsen]

Well one of the guys on the QiX forum suggested using a MIDIbox core to control it  ;D

On the completely other hand, what about something like this?

Altera DE1  multimedia FPGA development board.

# Altera Cyclone II 2C20 FPGA with 20000 LEs  {logic elements}

# 8Mbyte (1M x 4 x 16) SDRAM

# 4Mbyte Flash Memory

# 512Kbyte(256Kx16) SRAM

# SD Card Socket

# 24-bit Audio CODEC with line-in, line-out, and microphone-in jacks

# VGA out,  RS-232, PS/2 , two 40-pin Expansion Headers

Should be enough grunt there to set up both a simple soft-core CPU and some DSP

[Doug Wellington]

There are lots of options!  ;D

I have the Spartan 3E board:

http://fpga.synth.net/evalboards/spartan3e.shtml

and the Blackfin STAMP:

http://www.analog.com/en/prod/0%2C2877%2CBF537%25252DSTAMP%2C00.html

The Spartan is about the same cost as the Altera - $150.  FPGA boards are very very flexible, but that's also their weakness - you have to implement everything yourself.

The STAMP board doesn't provide the AD/DA, but it's a lot easier to write code for it...

Doug

[Ashiman]

someone posted all their FIR filter stuff @ diyaudio fpga topic i posted ...

http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=113341

http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~gary/614/week1/delayline.html#SECTION00026000000000000000

also some good link... If you download that visualaudio app also I suggested (meh) you can see a module breakdown for reverb app...

[DrBunsen]

Did you notice the PhoenixSID - a SID emulated in an FPGA (with external filters)

http://myhdl.jandecaluwe.com/doku.php/projects:phoenixsid_65x81

But more than that:  Python as a hardware description language

http://myhdl.jandecaluwe.com/doku.php/start