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Originally Posted by j_j  I could set this on on a 1U rack shelf.  Seriously, it would work, but if you want to build, that's cool. I'm just tired of DSP's and the notoriously annoying compiler/assemblers that they come with. |
Actually, an 'industrial' computer - something like a PC104 or something like that - with the same dual-core processor, also running Linux but in a 19" 1U box would be interesting. You could easily do your development on a netbook or whatever, and have two UI front-ends, one for a PC environment, the other for a little LCD and a few rotary encoders. Use a 'flash' hard drive in the 19" box to get rid of moving parts, that might work.
I don't mind working with the DSP56k family even in assembly code, it's relatively easy to write - almost as if I were programming on a PDP11 or 68k or some other CISC microprocessor. VLIW assembly code looks scary to me, though.