wowbagger's Journal: Our new DSP development station

Well, where I work we just bought a new DSP development station, to evaluate a potential chip for our RF signal processing. Any chip that can spit out a 16 million point complex FFT in 43 milliseconds is well worth investigating.

And it was a steal at the price: most such platforms cost several thousand dollars, this one cost less than US$700.

It was really fun, calling our IT department and saying "I need a monitor and network drop for my PS3" and it really being work related.

Now, we just have to get a screen on it and install Linux.

wow!

[WhiteDragon]

that's incredibly cool.

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[wowbagger]

What will be cool will be if using the CellBE pans out - if it can do the job we need done, and if we can get them in sufficient quantities to put into our equipment. Should that happen, the DSP guys will need to have access to development stations to test their code before moving on to the target systems (of which there NEVER are enough).

Should that happen, I would expect to see a PS3 at every DSP guy's desk, right next to his main workstation. That will be fun when we bring interns/interviewees through.

Pi