I’m just saying an FPGA approach is usually viewed as more expensive and power hungry, and that you do custom silicon for mass market products.
Think UBNT and ePMP. And if FPGAs are the wave of the future, sell your shares in Qualcomm and Atheros, and buy Altera. And I keep hearing that TVWS will never take off until the radio manufacturers move away from SDR and FPGAs and to more cost effective ASICs. I guess as usual, there are different flavors of koolaid. From: Chuck McCown Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 9:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] interesting telrad video FPGAs can be reprogrammed. And they, in theory, can do everything an ASIC can do. But ASICs are not able to be changed (at least they could not when I was working with them, that has been a few years ago). From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 8:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] interesting telrad video Painting ASICs as an old, failed approach and FPGAs as the future seems a little strange. From: That One Guy Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 9:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [AFMUG] interesting telrad video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzAkMGKT5_M I feel like there might be some koolaid here somewhere -- All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer. -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925
