Allentown, Pennsylvania-based AT&T Microelectronics has combined six of its DSP32C signal processors on a single industry-standard VMEbus circuit board to facilitate the development of applications in graphics, images, audio, speech and other real-time activities: the company reckons the board delivers 150 MFLOPS and software support includes a C-language source-code debugger, C-language compiler, host file server, and standard input-output library of programs; it can be used as a signal processing peripheral to a VMEbus Unix system, or as the hardware for real-time algorithm implementation; the Waves signal-processing package from Entropic Speech Inc is also supported; the board comes with a telephone-band codec and RS422 interfaces and sells for $10,000, now; a 9U adaptor to link the board to Sun workstations costs $950 and the C compiler is $3,800; support software library tools are $1,000; and the applications library is $95.
