> On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 21:27 -0400, Bob Ammerman wrote:

>> I have a current application that will involve quite a bit of signal
>> processing. It will use the free low-bit-rate modem library, DTMF encode 
>> and
>> decode, and simple speech compression and decompression. If we can manage 
>> it
>> we may even do a bit of voice recognition.
>
> While the dsPIC can surely be used for "DSPish" stuff, I think the point
> Olin and I were trying to make is that you don't to treat it as a DSP
> thingy. The dsPIC is a very nice to use 16bit microcontroller, and if
> you don't need any of the DSP stuff there's nothing to make you even
> consider it's there.

Yep. But it _can_ be used as a pretty good low-end DSP, too. Really nice to 
just be able to do everything on the one chip.

> BTW, any chance that project will be public domain? Sounds very cool! :)
> TTYL

Sorry, no.

Bob Ammerman


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