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From: b-clark@nwu.edu (Brian Clark)
Subject: Re: DSP or other cards for FFT's, anyone?
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In article <1qjnpi$bsj@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>,
ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) wrote:
> 
> We are doing heavy - duty image processing with some seriously
> underpowered Mac's (Mac IIsi, for example).  Most of the CPU time is
> burned in doing FFT's.
> 
> What cards are out there which would allow us to take away that part
> of the load from the CPU?  Any DSP 56001 or i860 cards out there,
> for example?  They'd have to be callable from Think Pascal, to
> replace the one - and two - dimensional FFT's routines in an already
> existing program.

Check out the National Instruments NB-DSP2300. This uses the Texas
Instruments TMS320C30 chip, which is a true 32 bit floating point DSP. It's
pricey, however.
