[hpsdr] JANUS: Update on Alpha

[Steven Bible]

Thanks Bob,

I was wondering about that myself.  I have two camps of thought, one, to use
a AC97 codec, or, two, one of the 24-bit ADC in the cookoff.  That being
perhaps the Cirrus Logic CS5381.

73,

- Steve, N7HPR
 (n7hpr at tapr.org)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert McGwier [mailto:rwmcgwier at comcast.net]
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 6:57 PM
> To: Steven Bible
> Cc: Bill Tracey; hpsdr at hpsdr.org
> Subject: Re: [hpsdr] JANUS: Update on Alpha
>
>
> Steven:
>
> It is my opinion that these parts are massive overkill for the dsPIC3X.
> You would need to need to use (software) floating point to take
> advantage of their capabilities rather than the (fast enough to be
> interesting) 16 bit core and the 16 bit fixed point arithmetic.  A top
> notch 16 bit part is good enough in my opinion.
>
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> Steven Bible wrote:
> > ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
> >
> > Thanks Bill,
> >
> > I did see that All American and saw that this part was not Internet
> > orderable.  So I'll call my rep and see what I can do.
> >
> > My interest is seeing if I can interface it to the dsPIC per earlier
> > messages.
> >
> > Interested to hear how the cook off goes.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > - Steve, N7HPR
> >  (n7hpr at tapr.org)
> >
> >
> >
>
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