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- From: os@IKP.Uni-Koeln.DE (Oliver Stuch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
- Subject: Re: Turtle Beach Hurricane a Motorola DSP 56001
- Date: 15 Nov 1992 15:03:09 GMT
- Organization: Institute of Nuclear Physics, University of Cologne, Germany
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- References: <1992Nov13.210113.23576@zooid.guild.org>
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- In article <1992Nov13.210113.23576@zooid.guild.org>, Mark Kovarski <kovarski@zooid.guild.org> writes:
- |> I have read in "PC Week" that the Multisound by Turtlebeach uses the
- |> Hurricane processor which is based on the Motorola DSP 56001. Does anybody
- |> know if it is the exact Motorola DSP 56001 or is it a modified Motorola DSP?
- |> If it is a modified DSP, what are the changes? Thanks...
-
- It is an original DSP 56001 running @ 40 MHz (ok...it's not the original
- frequency (33MHz).....).
-
- The data exchange mechanism between the MultiSoundCard and the PC is
- called "Hurricane":
-
- As Roy Smith, president of Turtle Beach Systems explains:
-
- "The data transfer between MultiSound and PC is very fast because of our
- "Hurricane" shared RAM architecture. There is a 32K window which the DSP and
- the PC can both access. This allows big blocks of data to be transferred to
- and from the card with one 386 instruction (REP MOVSW)."
-
- There might be a chip called "Hurricane" handling the data exchange...
- just a guess.
-
- Bye
- Olli
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