[linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [Alsa-devel] Firewire Audio Card Support

[Mark Knecht]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:19:45 -0800, Brad Fuller <brad at sonaural.com> wrote:
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> Mark Knecht wrote:

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> >Instead of a $400 2 channel PCI card we might end up with a $600
> >16-in/16-out device with hardware signal processing on board. To me
> >this is probably a better place to go. If we do all this work ten we
> >want to start working towards an architecture that will last.
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> Taking ladspa and mapping it to FPGA: how?  and how would you do this
> efficiently, if you could do it?  A C function to VHDL function
> convertor? (it's been a long time since I've worked with FPGAs. I'm sure
> there are advances)
> It might be more cost effective to use DSPs -- that is: more cost
> effective in the long run for everybody -- mostly the end user.
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> brad
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Sure - that's a fair comment and a design decision once some project
like this gets started. I just brainstorming. However, even with an
onboard DSP, which is most likely what Pro Tools does, we'd still need
to map from LADSPA C code to DSP code. Is that easy? I don't know.
Luckily I think we have many people here who probably could do good
stuff if they thought it was important to do.

Thanks for your input.

- Mark