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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: TS-7200 / ARM9 speed issue - question
From: "charliem_1216" <>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:47:41 -0000
Hi -

If you have a fixed point version of your app available, that's
probably the best alternative.

If not (much more likely), you can look into softfloat for a big FP
improvement: a factor of 15 in whetstone tests to a factor of 20 in
FFTW tests.

Of course, moving to eabi is not trivial at this point, and is left as
an exercise for the reader as they say :).  But the speedup available
can make the difference in the board working for the app you need or
not ....

Regards, ...... Charlie

--- In  "Breton M. Saunders"
<> wrote:
>
> Oh yea, forgot to mention:
>   I needed a EP9302 to play mp3s. 
>   Using mpg123 (a floating point heavy program) - the performance was
> about 5x slower than realtime.
>   Using madplay (a fixed point program) the performace was about 30%
> load while playing in stereo. 
> 
>     -Brett
> 
> David Topper wrote:
> > Yeah, it uses floats all over the place.  Interesting,
> > that would explain why I had to fall back to a two
> > year old version of the app (less use of floats).
> >
> > So the processor emulates FP math?  How can I get the
> > FPU to work?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > DT
> >
> > --- "Breton M. Saunders"
> > <> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Check that it doesn't use floating point math.
> >> If it does, you are in trouble.  You could try
> >> getting the FPU on the
> >> ARM9 to work, but that won't be easy.
> >>
> >>     -Brett
> >>
> >>
> >> djtopper wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Hi folks,
> >>>
> >>> I've been working getting an audio app
> >>>       
> >> (www.rtcmix.org) to compile for
> >>     
> >>> the TS-7xx boards.  I think I've finally got it
> >>>       
> >> working, using the
> >>     
> >>> ALSA libraries, etc...  I can definitely play
> >>>       
> >> soundfiles through my
> >>     
> >>> little USB dongle.
> >>>
> >>> I'm noticing, however, that for basic synthesis
> >>>       
> >> (eg., making a sine
> >>     
> >>> wave) the board is far too slow).  I mean, I can
> >>>       
> >> barely get one
> >>     
> >>> oscillator going.
> >>>
> >>> I used to be able to get about a dozen or so on my
> >>>       
> >> old 90 mhz Pentium.
> >>     
> >>> What's the deal with the ARM processor and speed?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> DT
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>  
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>>       
> >>     
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