Towards a high-performance platform for sonic interaction interfaces
RIS ID
143141
Abstract
Copyright: 2019 Stefano Fasciano et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. In this paper we introduce a hardware platform to prototype interfaces of demanding sonic interactive systems. We target applications featuring a large array of analog sensors requiring data acquisition and transmission to computers at fast rates, with low latency, and high bandwidth. This work is part of an ongoing project which aims to provide designers with a cost effective and accessible platform for fast prototyping of complex interfaces for sonic interactive systems or musical instruments. The high performances are guaranteed by a SoC FPGA. The functionality of the platform can be customized without requiring significant technical expertise. In this paper, we discuss the principles, the current design, and the preliminary evaluation against common microcontroller-based platforms. The proposed platform can sample up to 96 analog channels at rates up to 24 kHz and stream the data via UDP to computers with a sub millisecond latency.
Publication Details
Fasciani, S. & Vohra, M. 2019, 'Towards a high-performance platform for sonic interaction interfaces', Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conferences, pp. 97-104.