Analog Devices DSPs----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steve Conner 
  To: a...@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 10:23 AM
  Subject: [adsp] Re: Free Assembler for SHARC?
  Hi,

  I'm in the same position: I work for a small company with an open-source
mentality that balks at paying thousands of bucks for the VisualDSP toolset. So
when we wanted to make a product with a DSP, I chose the ADSP-2181, used the old
command-line assembler that came with the EZ-KIT, and made my own debugger that
connected through the DSP's IDMA port.

  The 2181 is a pretty useless DSP by today's standards, but I managed to make
it do everything I wanted with cycles to spare, and my code should be portable
to the 2189 once Analog stop selling the 2181, which I expect to happen any time
now.

  I only wish I could do the same for the SHARC. The BeastRider development kit
seems to be the only alternative to Analog's own, and it seems to have a nice
Unix weenie air to it. I don't know if they still make it, but last time I
contacted Mr. BeastRider, he had some left to sell. I'm trying to persuade the
boss to buy me one. :-)

The original gcc-based SHARC and 21xx tools are available on the web:

http://www.kvaleberg.com/g21.html

Leon