As it has an SPI interface, it should be usable with multichannel DAC's.
The main chip also has a lot of FPGA which could be tasked with providing
more SPI interfaces. A very interesting board indeed.....
Dave
On 13 May 2014 15:51, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Indeed that is an interesting board. However, hidden in a comment trail on
> the blog they note that there was limited funding for the production run of
> the 64 processor board. This resulted in higher cost/unit and a very
> limited quantity being produced. The net of that is that all that were made
> are already committed, so none with be available for purchase.
>
> Michael
>
> --------- Original Message --------- Subject: [Sursound] parallella board
> From: "JQ Adams" <[email protected]>
> Date: 5/13/14 1:59 am
> To: "Surround Sound discussion group" <[email protected]>
>
> Hi all.
>
> Does anyone have any experience or plans to perform audio-related
> processing using one of these boards with the Adapteva 16-core
> coprocessor?
>
> http://www.parallella.org
>
> It's cheap and low power (RaspberryPi-esque) but seemingly quite capable
> of
> significant workloads (especially the upcoming 64-core version).
>
> I figured it may be useful for many channel decoding of B-format to
> speaker
> feeds, or doing some heavy lifting in FIR calculations for
> room-equalization, etc.
>
> I have in mind echo cancelers and convolving out the room contribution for
> VC applications. However I don't know enough about chip architecture to
> know whether this would be a good choice over more conventional (SHARC)
> DSPs. I see that this is only 32-bit float capable in hardware, whereas
> math functions in the SHARC ar 40-bit precision. For proper scientific
> computing, double floats (64-bit) are usually desired, but I'm uncertain
> whether this applies to the audio domain.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
> JQ
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