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The reason I ask is TI has a new chip with a DSP built into it, and DSPs are
eventually bound to replace all the dedicated I/O chips we've got today. A
DSP is just a dedicated I/O processor, they can act like modems, sound and
video, 3D accelerators, USB interface, serial/paralell/joystick, ethernet,
802.11b wireless and bluetooth... Just hook it up to the right output
adapter and feed the DSP the right program and boom, it works.
Thats the theory. If you believe it please read up on the history of the i960 based i2o motherboard PCI controller, the 56K dsp on some Atari machines and so on. of the suckers, in massive volume, and think "economies of scale". These
suckers are going to be CHEAP. And low power. The portable market seems to
And irrelevant o An extra chip - expensive to mount and wire o "But we can do that on the main processor" etc From a scheduling point of view I would expect such a dsp to run a seperate
OS of its own, perhaps the rtlinux core without Linux
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