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Building a BlackfinOne

By david, on January 7th, 2007%

Over the past week I have been assembling, debugging and testing my own BlackfinOne board:

During this time I have had a lot of help from the BlackfinOne community, in particular via ongoing chat sessions with Wojtek (pronounced Voycheck) Tryc. Yesterday, I booted uClinux on hardware that I had helped design, soldered and debugged myself. . . . → Read More: Building a BlackfinOne

Building an Embedded Asterisk PBX Part 2

By david, on September 26th, 2006%

Here is the next installment in my adventures of building an embedded IP-PBX around the Blackfin-Asterisk. The big news is that we now have a working 4-port embedded IP-PBX and low cost hardware for sale!

DTMF Fixed Point Port

I spent a few days converting the Asterisk floating point DTMF detection code (dsp.c) to fixed point. . . . → Read More: Building an Embedded Asterisk PBX Part 2

Building an Embedded Asterisk PBX Part 1

By david, on September 2nd, 2006%

Over the last few days I have been bringing some telephony hardware to life. I have finally obtained all the parts I need and am assembling, testing, and blogging as I go!

This work is part of a project to develop and build “open” IP-PBX hardware. Now by building I mean really building. Like designing . . . → Read More: Building an Embedded Asterisk PBX Part 1

How to make your Blackfin fly Part 2

By david, on June 13th, 2006%

This article describes how to write fast DSP code for your Blackfin.

For the last month or so I have been working with Jean-Marc Valin from the Speex project to optimise Speex for the Blackfin. Jean-Marc had previously performed some optimisation work in the middle of 2005 (sponsored by Analog Devices).

We built on this work, reducing . . . → Read More: How to make your Blackfin fly Part 2

GSM Port for the Blackfin

By david, on June 13th, 2006%

For my uCasterisk project I needed a couple of optimised codecs for the Blackfin. This post discusses the steps taken to port GSM to the Blackfin.

The GSM codec for the Blackfin can be downloaded here.

Usage

1/ To make:

make

2/ To test:

Download tgsm (test program produced by make) to your target and also download a source speech file . . . → Read More: GSM Port for the Blackfin

How to make your Blackfin fly Part 1

By david, on May 12th, 2006%

The Blackfin processor is one of the fastest DSPs available today. It also runs uClinux and has a great open source community and there are even open (free) hardware designs available.

I am interested in using the Blackfin for telephony applications, where DSP grunt is required for codecs and echo cancellation. Now that I have . . . → Read More: How to make your Blackfin fly Part 1

Measuring Stack Usage in Multi-threaded uClinux Apps

By david, on May 12th, 2006%

In regular Linux the MMU allows the stack to grow dynamically, the MMU just allocates more physical pages. However in uClinux, the correct amount of stack for each thread must be allocated before the thread is created.

Too little stack and your program will corrupt the system in nasty, unpredictable ways. Thread stack . . . → Read More: Measuring Stack Usage in Multi-threaded uClinux Apps

Porting multi-threaded apps to uClinux

By david, on May 1st, 2006%

I have recently been working on improving the stability of uCasterisk, a port of Asterisk to uClinux. This required some research into memory management for multi-threaded apps on uClinux. I didn’t find any one resource that had everything I needed to know so I thought I would collate some of the information I found . . . → Read More: Porting multi-threaded apps to uClinux

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