[tremor] Tremor on DSP

[timmy brolin]

The C6713 is a very high performance floating point DSP with lots of internal RAM. The great thing about the C6713 is that it is the _only_ C6000 DSP that does not come in a 548ball BGA package.
Vorbis will most likely only consume 1/5 or less of it's CPU power.
As for the compiler; The Code Composer development environment is great (includes compiler). Nowdays it has a graphical linker that is wounderful to use. You can drag and drop any piece of code or data between different memory areas. 
The downside is that the compiler is rather expensive.

/
Timmy
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Smith <msmith at xiph.org>
To: tremor at xiph.org
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:13:01 +1000
Subject: Re: [tremor] Tremor on DSP

On Friday 12 September 2003 01:29, timmy brolin wrote:
> Implemented in hardware? You are using a DSP, right?
> If you intend to use a floating point DSP, then you should use ogg vorbis,
> not tremor. Tremor is intended for integer-only systems (such as ARM) and
> as reference for future hardware implementations (FPGA / ASIC).
>

There _are_ reasons to use tremor even on floating point hardware, in some 
cases, though. Tremor (I think this is still on a seperate branch, though) 
has much lower memory usage - in some cases that might be important. 

On a TI C67xx board, it's unlikely to be worthwhile, though - my experience 
with those suggests that mainline vorbis would be appropriate. I hope the 
compiler has improved since I last used it (several years ago), though - it 
was a nightmare.

Mike

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