Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!pasteur!east.Berkeley.EDU!phil
From: phil@east.Berkeley.EDU (Phil Lapsley)
Newsgroups: comp.dsp
Subject: Re: DSP boards for PCs
Message-ID: <10069@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 8 Jan 91 20:05:25 GMT
References: <18732@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU
Reply-To: phil@east.Berkeley.EDU (Phil Lapsley)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Lines: 15

jaervinen@bhajee.enet.dec.com asks about PC based DSP boards.  Lots of
companies make these.  The one that I'm the most familiar with is the
PC-56 from Ariel Corp.  It's a DSP56000 (the Motorola DSP chip) with
with 16K or 64K words of memory and optional analog I/O (single channel,
14 bit A/D and D/A, with variable sampling rate up to 20 kHz or so).
The cost is between $500 and $700 (I think) depending on how much memory
you get and whether you want the analog I/O chip.  It's a pretty good
starter board for somebody interested in learning about DSP and the 56k.
Ariel's telephone number is (908) 249-2900.

Like I said, though, there are lots of other companies that make DSP
boards for the PC.  If you're a digital hardware hacker, you could
also build your own.

Phil Lapsley		phil@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU	...!ucbvax!phil