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    A Portable Machine And Audio, Macro

    Audacity would likely run fine on the Pandora. Give Audacity a try and see if it'll do what you want. I think it has a lot of the good features of Sound Forge. I'm not familiar with winmacro.
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    Google Summer Of Code

    In Google Summer of Code, students get paid $5,000 to work on open source projects. Applications are accepted March 29-April 9. See http://code.google.com/soc for details. BeagleBoard.org is an open hardware project that has guts similar to the OpenPandora. If students want to do development...
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    Dsp Dummies Book

    Perhaps I missed it, but I haven't seen anyone talk about the new "Dummies Book" that describes how to program for the DSP on the Pandora. "OMAP™ & DaVinci™ Software for Dummies" is being given away for free (while supplies last) at http://www.ti.com/dummiesbook. Codec Engine and Link are also...
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    Tms320c64x

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    Blimey! Brilliant Idea Hits Me On Head!

    Beagle and Pandora really aren't in the same league. Beagle is meant more as a software development board for hobbyists, students, etc. The same software should run on both, but Beagle doesn't have a battery, touchscreen LCD, gaming controls, case, etc. that make up the Pandora. Now, if I can...
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    Omap Dev Kit Playing A Video

    And there you go. :rolleyes: The current eval board is for the OMAP3503 (non GPU/DSP) evaluation. It would just suck to have to send out new chips to everyone once the full support comes on-line. Craig & co. have seen the 3D and DSP working, so there's no chance of not getting the support...
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    Omap Dev Kit Playing A Video

    Guys, don't go too nuts on this, but the board has an OMAP3530, not OMAP3503. You can only get SUPPORT for the OMAP3503 features right now. I believe that is the answer you get if you call and ask, but we don't want folks buying the board expecting full support to be disappointed.
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    What's Your Dev Setup Going To Be?

    VirtualLogix is running Linux on the C64x, but I believe they may still be using the TI compiler under a gcc frontend (I really have no idea). All the required specs are out there if anyone wants to get going on a native C64x compiler. According to the TMS320 wiki page, someone started on that...
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    Development Tools

    There is support for the Cortex-A8 in Code Sourcery 2007q3: http://www.codesourcery.com/gnu_toolchains/arm/download.html. I'd bet money that the Pandora devs would use this toolchain, unless they are looking for something particular with an older toolchain. ARM and TI both have toolchains with...
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    128mb Of Ram...

    The SoC can support more than 128MB of RAM. "16, 32-bit Memory Controller With 2G-Byte Total Address Space" at http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/omap3530.html I won't claim that adding all of that memory would be trivial, so I wouldn't expect the Pandora specs to change based on me...
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    128mb Of Ram...

    http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/omap3530.html There was a typo, but it has been corrected. The ARM and DSP are both little-endian, at least as far as I know. :) C64x+ is actually pretty good, in my estimation, for general programming, but the OMAP3 architecture is centered...
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    Tms320c64x

    QUOTE QUOTE There is an eval of CCS to try out with the debugger, compiler, etc.. I'm working on getting TI to release the C64x compiler-only (no debugger) for x86 Linux for free for non-commercial development. I hope to get this done in time for when you can put your hands on a Pandora...
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    Tms320c64x

    Looks like this is a bit tardy and you've already figured it out... The 256-bit width to the *I*-cache is because you can have up to 256 bits per instruction (8 parallel instruction units times up to 32 bits per instruction). Most instructions aren't that long, but they don't call it very-long...
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    Pandora At Tidc News!

    I'm still here, though I don't check the forum often. You ought to now be able to find a lot more documentation on OMAP3 at http://www.ti.com/omap35x based on our announcements at TIDC last week. I'll happily trade chip answers for Pandora units!
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    Our New Machine, Pandora

    I want this community to make an OMAP3-based device more than anyone and I think it would be awesome. If it can't be done at a reasonable price, then I think it'd be right to forget it. I can't give out pricing, but I can work with those who can. As soon as Craig and I can manage to talk, we...
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