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Danville Signal Processing's Roadmap
Danville Signal has always had a strategic relationship with Analog Devices. We work very closely with a number of DSP product groups at ADI. During the last several years, we have focused our attention on the third generation SHARC family of DSPs. The SHARC has emerged as the dominant platform for high performance audio. Many of our customers have an interest in some aspect of digital audio, whether their focus is in instrumentation, telephony, commercial or professional sound applications. We have a strong background in these areas; our product line is well suited to meet a variety of digital audio needs. The SHARC DSP has a very useful architecture for many other signal processing applications. SHARC DSPs perform both 32 bit fixed point and 32 or 40 bit IEEE floating point operations equally well. This means that you can write your DSP algorithms to use the data format that is most appropriate for its task and benefit from the inherit precision of a 32 bit processor. SHARC DSPs are fast and easy to program. Our dspstak™ and dspblok™ products are designed to take advantage of the SHARC architecture. This allows our customers to integrate our products into their unique applications with short development times and great results. Danville is committed to supporting the SHARC family of DSPs. Analog Devices has announced a number of very exciting SHARC DSPs. We will have new dspstak and dspblok products based on these DSPs as the parts become available. You can learn more about Analog Devices' SHARC Roadmap on the Analog Devices web site. Analog Devices has a new family of third generation SHARC DSPs. The first important part is the ADSP-21369. Although ADI is positioning the ADSP-2136x parts for high performance digital audio, it is clear to us that these DSPs will be very useful for general purpose applications as well. The new DSPs are a blend of the best features of the ADSP-21161 and the ADSP-2126x family. Analog Devices has also announced lower cost parts that will be available early 2007. These include the ADSP-21371 & ADSP-21375. You can think of these parts as ADSP-21369 lite since they are code compatible with the ADSP-21369 (subset of features). Audio Devices has also announced a new software platform called VisualAudio that we think will be a great interest to our audio customers and perhaps to other customers as well. Here is how Analog Devices describes this product: "VisualAudio provides a graphical design and development environment that lets audio system developers easily design custom post-processing networks, quickly generate product-ready code and dynamically tune output via real-time tweaking of digital signal processing modules such as delay, reverb, equalizers and tone controls. By handling the nuts and bolts of audio product development, VisualAudio frees developers’ time and creativity to concentrate on the features that will make their products stand out among the competition, and it opens the audio market to a broader range of developers." We have been working with the VisualAudio group at ADI to support the dspstak. We have platform files available that support the new VisualAudio 2.5 release. Stay tuned for further developments. There is always some new on the horizon and we'll be there. |
Since the introduction of the Analog Devices Inc (ADI) third generation SHARC® family, Danville Signal has been the leading supplier of general purpose DSP boards based on the SHARC. Our dspstak™ 21262sx board was the first commercially available board based on this architecture. It was announced the same day that Analog Devices announced the ADSP-21262 in August 2003. | < Prev | Next > |
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