|
[DPRG] More on the Motorola chip that the guy from New Micros
told us about at today's meeting
Subject: [DPRG] More on the Motorola chip that the guy from New Micros
told us about at today's meeting
From: Karim Virani
karim at yadallas.org
Date: Wed Sep 12 17:30:50 CDT 2001
Is anyone planning to make the leap to get one of these eval boards prior to
availability of the New Micros offering? Also, does anyone have an opinion
on the new JStamp controllers?
www.jstamp.com by Systronix - expensive, but impressive on paper.
www.jstamp.net by Parallax
Karim
-----Original Message-----
>From: dprglist-admin at dprg.org [mailto:dprglist-admin at dprg.org]On Behalf
Of Kipton Moravec
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 6:17 PM
To: DPRG List
Subject: [DPRG] More on the Motorola chip that the guy from New Micros
told us about at today's meeting
I was looking up the information about the new Signal Processor New Micro's
is planning to offer in their board. It runs at 3.3 V.
Here is the blurb from the website:
"
The merging of DSP and Microcontroller functionality combined with
integrated peripherals, provide a high-speed, cost-effective solution for
your demanding DSP and/or MCU applications. The DSP56F827 is a member of the
DSP56800 core-based family of Digital Signal Processors (DSPs). It combines
on a single chip, the processing power of a DSP and the functionality of a
microcontroller with a flexible set of peripherals to create an extremely
cost-effective solution. DSP56F827 is ideal for a multitude of control,
telephony and other applications requiring highly-integrated,
high-performance solutions with all the flexibility enabled by Flash
technology.
The DSP56800 core is based on a Harvard-style architecture consisting of
three execution units operating in parallel, allowing as many as six
operations per instruction cycle. The microprocessor-style programming model
and optimized instruction set allow straight forward generation of
efficient, compact code for both DSP- and MCU-style applications. The
instruction set supports efficient C Compilers to enable rapid development
of optimized control applications."
It looks nice. But what I really found interesting is the SDK is currently
free! It is normally $895, but I think they are trying to get people to be
interested in it so all you have to do is register, and you can get a CDROM
or download it directly.
If you think you may be interested in this processor in the future, you
probably should download the SDK now while it is free. (I am doing it now
while I am typing this.)
Go to Motorola, http://www.motorola.com
Click on semiconductors
Search for signal processors
Hit the link for "Software Development tools"
Hit the link for MSW3SDK000AA
Once it is downloaded the installation key should be in your mail box.
The Metrowerks C compiler costs $2500.
However it is currently free if you get 1 year of service for $999.00 (boo)
or an evaluation board: (yea)
DSP65F801EVM is not available yet, the chip is too new. (16K program Flash,
2K SRAM, 11 I/O)
DSP65F803EVM is $338.70 at Arrow (64K program Flash, 4K SRAM, 16 I/O)
DSP65F805EVM is not available yet. (64K program Flash, 4K SRAM, 32 I/O)
DSP65F807EVM is $299.10 at Arrow (120K program Flash, 8K SRAM, 32 I/O)
DSP65F826EVM is not available yet. (63K program Flash, 4K SRAM, 46 I/O (16
dedicated. 30 shared)
DSP65F827EVM is not available yet (128K program Flash, 8K SRAM, 64 I/O (16
dedicated. 48 shared)
Evaluation board is the way to go. The New Horizons board uses the 803. But
the 807 development board is cheaper than the 803 board. I don't understand
why.
Serial ports:
The 801, and 803 have one serial port (they call SCI)
The 805, 807, and 826 has 2 serial ports,
The 827 has 3 serial ports.
Kip
Kipton Moravec kip at kdream.com
DREAM
Custom Electronics Design and Manufacture
http://www.kdream.com
_______________________________________________
DPRGlist mailing list
DPRGlist at dprg.org
http://nimon.ncc.com/mailman/listinfo/dprglist
More information about the DPRG mailing list
|
