Does Labview support an old TMS320C31 dsp ?

[Mic_Scale]

Hi,

I have an old LOUGHBOROUGH SOUND IMAGES PCC31 V4 board, it uses the following DSP:

Ti - TMS320C31PQL40, EE-81AHHHW

It has the TMS320C31 processor.

Can I use this DSP in Labview ?

[LV_Pro]

The answer is sort of a mixed yes & no. LabVIEW probably can't be used to talk directly to the board (I say probably because of the new tools for talking to different uP) but may be able to utilize the board with intermediate code written in C or C++. While I'm not familiar with this particular board I did use a DSP card in a Mac environment a few years ago, it required writing the code to be executed on the board and the development of an "interface" between the dsp cards hw and LabVIEW. Depending on how much time you want to devote, how knowlegable you are or want to become regarding this specific hardware would probably be the deciding factor. If you are just trying to do DSP you probably want to look into how fast the board is vs. doing the DSP in LabVIEW. Compared to the Mac w-DSP card that I worked on before a new machine (Mac or PC) would probably be faster than that older DSP card I used, so you might want to look into that as well. I'd also check the web for stuff about it, there are folks out there that are doing some interesting things with sound cards and video cards to utilize the enhanced hardware in "non-traditional" ways.

P.M..