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From: robison@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu (Bob Robison)
Newsgroups: comp.dsp
Subject: Re: dsp boards in suns
Keywords: dsp, VME, sun
Message-ID: <1440@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu>
Date: 18 Oct 89 21:53:32 GMT
References: <1575@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: robison@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu (Bob Robison)
Followup-To: comp.dsp
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
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In article <1575@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> rkc@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (rkc) writes:

>I am looking for information on dsp accelerator boards that plug into sun
>3/xxx or SPARC systems.  I want to know 
>	1. Names of Companies (and phone #'s, if possible)
>	2. DSP chips the boards are based on.
>	3. How the user interface is set up.
>I am especially interested in companies using Weitek's 8000 series chips.
>
Well, I'm not sure if this would count as an accelerator but Valley
Enterprises (717) 668-3737 (Tamaqua, PA) makes a VME board with four
DSP-32C chips on board.  They supply development software for the SUN
in the form of C compiler, assembler, and linker.  They also have a small
applications library.  The board ranges in price from about 6K to 12K
depending on the number of AT&T DSP32C chips and the amount of RAM. 
Software is about $3000 for a full complement.  I have not used the board
but we expect to order it once our capital equipment monies have become
available :-).  

The only other DSP board I've seen for the SUN is a version of the SKY
Challenger which is TMS32020 based.  I have used this and it is OK, but
I wasn't overly impressed.  

Hope this helps,
bob
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Bob Robison	- Southwest Research Institute, Electromagnetics Div.
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