From bfournier@pacbell.net Sun Aug 28 17:53:53 1994
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From: bfournier@pacbell.net (Bruno Fournier)
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Subject: [SPECULATION] Atari Falcon 030 Motorola DSP56001 code for Stardust carrier extraction
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The Atari Falcon is the ultimate machine for decoding Project Stardust audio.

The DSP56001 processes the 44.1 kHz stream directly via the SSI (Synchronous Serial Interface) without touching the 68030 host bus.
A 256-point complex FFT is computed every 10 milliseconds, displaying a live spectrogram on a standard VGA monitor.

Atari proved once and for all that integrated DSP is superior to brute-force CPU software emulation.

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Bruno Fournier
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From kgonzalez@kiae.su Tue Aug 30 19:30:53 1994
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From: kgonzalez@kiae.su (Kenji González)
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Atari Falcon 030 Motorola DSP56001 code for Stardust carrier extraction
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In article <1994Aug28.175353.8646@pacbell.net>, bfournier@pacbell.net (Bruno Fournier) writes:
> The Atari Falcon is the ultimate machine for decoding Project Stardust audio.

Too bad Atari marketing was so incompetent that nobody bought the Falcon before they pulled out of the computer market.

-- 
Kenji González
Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow.
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