According to Mike Long:
>
>I know; my point was that ANY data conversion done in software slows
>down the system.  That includes the ULAW <-> PCM8 conversion already
>provided.
>

If you are really serious about the performance the best you could do
is use a lookup table.  Pre-calculate the values, whack them into a
table and use the incoming value as a lookup.  Costs you an extra
memory operation, 'tis all.  For 16 bit a lookup table may be a bit
excessive ;-) in this case you could make a smaller table and use a
linear interpolation (or quadratic if you want to get really fancy)  -
the trade off being the size of the table vs accuracy of the
interpolation vs the time to do the calculation.

I once used this method to calculate sine & cos values in fixed point
numbers on a M68010 using assembly language.... the answers were
pretty accurate and fast enough to keep up with real time changes in
the system.

-- 
Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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