Product category:
Design and Development Hardware
News Release from: Kane Computing | Subject: Lyrtech PADK
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 11 July 2005
Dev kit enables high-end professional
audio
The PADK is a stand-alone board based on the new TMS320C6727 digital signal processor, and is aimed at high-end professional audio applications.
Kane Computing is now shipping the new PADK professional audio development kit manufactured by Lyrtech of Quebec, Canada The PADK is a stand-alone board based on the new Texas Instruments (TI) TMS320C6727 digital signal processor (DSP), and is aimed at high-end professional audio applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
Related stories
Fibre-optic link for long-range digital video
Opticlink is a novel system for transmitting digital video over long distances (up to 10km) using fibre optic cables.
PCMCIA JTAG emulator endorsed by TI DSP
Kane Computing claims that its Predator PCMCIA JTAG emulator was used by Texas Instruments to communicate with the first TMS320C6416 DSPs to come out of its fab, and it all worked first time.
In addition to the 300MHz, 1800MFLOPS, C6727 DSP the PADK includes eight 24bit, 192kHz ADCs and eight 24bit, 192kHz DACs, 24bit digital input and output ports, USB port, midi input/output, an analogue port for external controls and an onboard expansion slot.
The high-resolution sampling rate convertor of the PADK offers the possibility to simultaneously operate at different input and output sampling rates, and to lock to various audio and word clock input sources for multichannel coding, processing or sound generation.
The USB port is ideal for high-speed communications to a host computer, which allows streaming audio in real time, downloading large sound banks, and handling any other high bandwidth applications.
Further reading
Real-time image capture from PC frame grabber
A new PC/104 plus frame grabber has recently been announced by Kane Computing.
Convertor turns video to digital
New from Kane Computing, the PixeLink PL-A544 FireWire video convertor captures and converts NTSC/Pal video into digital images.
Duplicator boosts digital video transmission
Kane Computing has a novel CameraLink duplicator which creates a second slave stream to allow transfer of digital video to a second target host.
Midi input, output and through ports allow users to interface directly with external musical instruments and controllers and an analogue port is provided for external control inputs, such as pedals and switches.
Kane Computing and Lyrtech see the PADK as ideal for applications such as professional audio (broadcasting, encoding and studio); modification of sound and music and embedded sound generation (games, karaoke, background music and sound synthesis).
The PADK is fully compatible and integrated with Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio and eXpressDSP development tools.
The software supplied with the PADK is also compatible with Texas Instruments CSL and DSP/BIOS.
Finally, the PADK comes fully loaded with drivers for all peripheral elements of the board, as well as application examples and an audio streaming wavetable synthesis solution demonstration that truly showcases the full potential of the PADK and its TMS320C6727 DSP.
System level development support is available on request for Simulink, The Mathworks Embedded Target for TI C6000 DSP.
The optional audio streaming and wavetable solution software is designed for Texas Instruments TMS320C6727 floating-point DSP.
This software provides an optimised solution for midi sound synthesis, based on wavetable technology, for musical instrument and professional audio product developers.
The software also includes an optimised multichannel audio streaming and playback solution capable of decoding audio such as ADPCM, WAV and MP3 format files.
The TMS320C6727 is capable of processing up to 128 simultaneous polyphonic voices of sound synthesis and up to 15 simultaneous MP3 decodes with full capabilities of mixing matrix and audio effects processing.
The Texas Instruments TMS320C6727 DSP is tuned for applications where audio quality and performance are critical.
At 300MHz and 1800MFLOPS, it outperforms most DSPs currently available.
The 64 internal registers improve automatic compiler optimisations, increase tight-loop performance, and reduce the overall number of necessary accesses to the memory.
The four enhanced floating-point add instructions, in parallel, boost FFT processing by 20%.
The dMAX DMA engine offloads the processor for specialised off-chip memory accesses, commonly used in effects processing.
32 x 64bit operations improve the efficiency of high-precision audio processing for high sampling rate, low-frequency applications.
They still support 32bit fixed-point operations, to ease the porting of existing legacy code.
Developers can profit from this performance to deliver the most realistic audio experience and incorporate unique capabilities like automatic room correction, speaker virtualisation, audio and voice enhancement, music synthesis, and more into their professional audio and mass-market products. Request a free brochure from Kane Computing ...
• Kane Computing: contact details and other news
• Email this article to a colleague
• Register for the free Electronicstalk email newsletter
• Electronicstalk Home Page
Search the Pro-Talk network of sites
