10 Dec
2006
10 Dec
'06
8:39 p.m.
On 12/10/06, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
Talking of DSPs reminded me of the graphics chips
family that TI
created in the mid 80s, the TMS34010 was the first part.
Not really a graphics chip per se, but a general-purpose DSP, though
AFAIK it was primarily laid out for telecom purposes. I may be biased
though, that's where I've seen it used :-)
Does anyone have equipment that utilizes this chip or
have an
opportunity to work with them directly?
Only marginally. By the time I did actually some code in telecom
industry (Hello to all ex-Newbridge Ottawa people!) I was working with
the C050 - and even that one was strining under the workload of just a
few channel at 8kHz sampling rate for applications such as G.729
coding or echo cancellation. The C010 in comparison was VERY limited.
It was a chip I read about a lot, but didn't get
around to using
myself.
I have the manual for it at my office acually, and my boss has an old
board (including POTS interface bits) with it on it. I'm toying with
the idea of putting on some of my own code on it, just for old time's
sake...
Joe.