Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Acoustics instead of radio & what's possibleinreal-time?

[Jeff Brower]

Jim-

> >> How many MFLOPS does your DSP solution currently require?  You mention
> >> a floating-point DSP; is it the Texas Inst
> >> C6713?  If so is it running 300 MHz / 1200 MFLOPS?
> >
> > Yes, that's right. I do fear we are using it rather inefficiently, though.
> >
> 
> To clarify: we are running non-optimized code on the 6713, due to a
> combination of version incompatibilities between various pieces of
> software (some MathWorks, some TI, some "4th party") and bugs that
> mysteriously appear when optimization is turned on. As I'm a
> microcontroller programmer with little DSP experience I haven't solved
> this problem yet.

To make a valid 6713 vs. PC comparison at some point, on the DSP side you'd 
want to
resolve the optimization issues and make sure you've got L2 cache being used
efficiently.  There is a current thread on the C6x Yahoo Group about this (look 
for
'dorian').

-Jeff