TMS320 is blanket name for a lot of different TI DSP products, from the
fixed point C54x to the 8-core floating point C67x variants and beyond.
some of them even having quite powerful ARM cores and extra hardware
acceleration added...

On Mon, Jul 20, 2020, 22:18 robert bristow-johnson <r...@audioimagination.com>
wrote:

>
> The H3000 is a legendary piece of gear.  I've worked with the two main
> designers of it and they both live in the same town in Vermont that I do.
> I did not get to work on that product line when I joined Eventide in late
> 1991.
>
> From a simple and effective user-interface POV, it's also quite well
> designed for it's vintage (1989, i think).
>
> But the TMS320 is not what made the H3000 great.  It became great in spite
> of the lack of greatness in the 16-bit TI DSP chip.  In fact, the H3000 has
> *three* TMS320 chips in it and to get the box to do great things, they had
> to divide up very difficult complex programming among the 3 DSPs and do
> some synchronized parallel processing where they were passing data between
> the chips and timing their instructions to do that.
>
> In today's world, I don't see it as a good idea to use the TMS320 for any
> synth/effects at all.  What do you have?  An old dev board?
>
>
> --
>
> r b-j                  r...@audioimagination.com
>
> "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
>
>
> > On July 20, 2020 7:42 AM Tristan <t...@alphalink.com.au> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > The Eventide H3000 uses TMS32010 DSP chips.
> >
> > https://reverb.com/news/tech-behind-eventide-h3000-ultra-harmonizer
> >
> > /Tristan
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 20th, 2020 at 7:52 PM, "Peter P." <peterpar...@fastmail.com>
>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Dear list,
> > >
> > > I am looking for examples of commercial synthesis and audio effects
> > > products using DSPs from the TMS320 family.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for any pointers!
> > > cheers, Peter
> > >
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