On Wednesday 14 February 2007 11:17 am, shadowym wrote: > I gotta take issue with your comments that a HWEC is just software running > on a DSP. In the case of Octasic, it's an ASIC. How it does EC is VERY > different because.....it's done completely in hardware, not firmware loaded > into memory and run on a specialized CPU! Yes, the ASIC does contain an > DSP but it is customized for EC. You cannot think of it as a CPU.
Why not? A DSP is a CPU which has been designed to do mathematical functions very quickly, generally especially with respect to matrix math. I mean think of what you just said. You could just as easily have said "A CPU ... it's an ASIC. Everything it does is completely in hardware." -A. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
