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Title: tms320dm642 Evaluation Module
Post by: Bleagh on April 07, 2008, 12:41:49 am

I came across one of these.

http://www.spectrumdigital.com/product_info.php?cPath=37&products_id=121 (http://www.spectrumdigital.com/product_info.php?cPath=37&products_id=121)

As far as I can tell it's some fancy video card.

Anyone know what it can be used for?

Title: Re: tms320dm642 Evaluation Module
Post by: MonMotha on April 07, 2008, 02:00:39 am

What you have is a fancy development board for a DSP chip from Texas Instruments.  The DSP is design for video processing work (compressing/decompressing, scaling, etc.)  This board is designed for developing products based on the chip and algorithms to run on it.

Unless you're into designing video hardware and software, it's not likely to be particularly useful.  I'm moderatly interested, though.

Title: Re: tms320dm642 Evaluation Module
Post by: Bleagh on April 07, 2008, 08:07:44 pm

I dont suppose I could use it as a video card and take advantage of the many inputs and outputs then?

Title: Re: tms320dm642 Evaluation Module
Post by: Samstag on April 07, 2008, 10:15:03 pm

Sure you can.  You just need to write some drivers.

Title: Re: tms320dm642 Evaluation Module
Post by: MonMotha on April 08, 2008, 03:19:34 am

And likely some firmware to run on the DSP, though there may be enough evaluation stuff to get some semblance of video output working if you have all the software that came with the EV kit, as well as the board.