Re: DSP for Sonar
2015/06/06 08:15:02
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As I wrote, this forum is not the best place to discuss DSP and for what they are good. But I will give you one hint (one from many!):
DSPs are (in general) Real Time devices. Big misunderstanding is spread in Internet about what that means. Real Time means that some task will be finished at predictable time. Not after (and usually not before). From processing power point of view, that is always SLOWER then on general system. Example. $3 DSP will finish simple sum within 1ms in case it is specified in its documentation. ALWAYS. General system, like modern PC, will spend less then 0.001ms on that operation in MOST cases. But there will be time when it takes 1ms, 5ms or even more. That is the reason for all discussions about audio jitter/latency/ASIO buffers. It is not that the system has no power, it just can not finish easy task in predictable time. Generic PCs are really bad there. And while mistakes in drivers are most discussed direction, the chipset (motherboard) has quite some latency, chipset AND particular manufacturer/model dependent. GPUs are even worse.
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