A Demonstration of The Ircam Signal Processing Workstation

Abstract

This is a project begun in August 19SS involving eight to ten engineers. The intention is to provide a system which is n-ell adapted to both real-time signal processing and event processing. The system uses the NeXT machine as host computer. We have developed a high-speed general purpose multiprocessor configured as plugin boards for the NeXT cube. The board, designed at IRCAM, uses two Intel i860 processors for number crunching and a 560001 for I/O. Three boards can be plugged into a NeXT cube for a total of 6 i860's.