TI TMS320VC5505 recipients

Alistair,

Since you asked, someone inquired about portable sound meters this week.  With its DSP cabibilities , the TMS320VC5505 would be worth trying in this application.  It could display the results on a LCD and/or transmit it over the USB connection.

Regards,

Gordon Margulieux

Salem, OR USA

The nice thing about the 5505 is the FFT HW accelerator. I would like to use it as a generator/receiver of modulated baseband data streams.

I'd like to use the audio codec as the DAC/ADC part of the generator/receiver. Thus FSK, PSK, QAM, OFDM, ... can be generated in real-time thus offering the posibility of studying their resilience in a media of choice. An example would be to explore the PowerLine transmission characteristics. The DSP kit would be a very good tool to select the proper transmission technique (depending on the media).

I have parts of the SW written but the only thing lacking of is a powerful DSP to perform all the computations.

Regards,

Bogdan

Xavier,

Sounds really interesting.

Bogdan,

It won't affect any decisions, I was just interested myself. What would you do with the kit?

Hi Alistair,

Do we have to list our (the interested parties for the 10th kit) plans for board usage as part of the test?

Hi Allistair,

i think about 2 application for this kit:

- Do some audio analysis in real time with dsp (FFT, vocoding, sound compression...) and get data back to PC through USB

- for some time I wanted to do a small scope system, close to the first application but with some more features...

A small DSP with a USB link offers many opportunity to do some small projects and discover deeply DSP world

Regards

Xavier

Hello,

any idea how the last kit will be drawn ?

Regards

I just recieved my TI TMS320..... today.

The box contained a dvdrom, installation leaflet and a pcbboard.

I will see if I can get the time to install and try it out next week.

Carsten Doerwald

Alistair,

You are right. I'd like your idea and i think the other members either.

Cheers,

Firat Kocak

I was thinking you should run a little puzzle, maybe something like the ones in Breaktime first right answer wins the kit, seems equitable and a bit more fun than just logging in to attend an event. I then realised however that RoadTest has members from all around the world, so people might not get an equal chance to compete (i.e. it might be the middle of the night for some when you post the question.

If you can figure out a fair time to post a question though and pre-announce the time it going to go live, I think that could be a bit of fun, a cerebral sprint race.

Otherwise I'd suggest taking the original non winning entrants + any new entrants and randomly select a reviewer to receive the kit.