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Re: DSP chips are NOT dinosaurs

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From: Izumi Ohzawa
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 10:32
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In article <1aehh5INNa0r@stephen.cs.ubc.ca> sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart Ritchie) writes:
>In article <1ae4klINNpph@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu writes:
>>My DSP gets interrupted 150,000 times per second with each sample
>>being 12 or 16 bits, and 68040 doesn't even notice this unless
>>something interesting happens in the input samples.
>
>Is the DSP fielding interrupts at this rate, or is this while polling?
>(polling is cheating)

Interrupts, not polling.  Some CD-quality stereo recording apps run
with the DSP interrupted 88,200 times per sec to get 44.1k x 2 samples/sec.

You get get a lot more than that, although doing anything with the
obtained samples gets tougher as the data rate increases.


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