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I'm considering buying one of the low cost Ariel DTK's
for either the Motorola 56001 (DTK-56) or the TI 'C30
(DTK-C30 ?).

IF YOU OWN OR FREQUENTLY USE one of these kits, I'd 
greatly appreciate your opinions.  My questions are:

1. Would you buy it again now that you know its
   limitations, etc ?

2. Is it worth the $1300 to $1500 (w/out a C 
   compiler)...

3. Any other observations?

4. Obviously one is floating point, the other int.
   I'm leaning towards the 'C30.  Wise move ?


I'm a Ph.D candidate in EE (DSP/speech), and have
a strong professional audio background.  Application
of the board would be to learn more about DSP
assembly algorithms, and to find out about what
you can and cannot do with a single given DSP
chip and a PC platform.  My host platform is a
Gateway '486/33.

I'm pretty well versed on basic to medium-
level DSP _theory_, I'm just ready to get neck-
deep into DSP assembly, and am wondering what
hindsight previous folks can offer.

I also realize that the cheapest way is to build
my own PC board (plug-in or stand-alone), but I'm
not sure that I want to take the time to wrestle with 
the unfun tasks of host port interfacing, trouble-
shooting hardware, writing host drivers, and all
that other stuff. ... Thus the reason to buy
Ariel's package...

Note that this all will be paid for
from a small grant I got from the AES, so spending
$1500 won't wipe me out.  But I cannot afford more 
than this.

Please respond direct to me, and I will gladly post
results.  Thank you very much.

John White
white@drwho.ee.ufl.edu