Triode wrote: > To add to this - we specifically picked the Wandboard for two reasons > (and you can see some agonising on this on the thread re hardware): > 1) We know it supports USB Dacs well as it has hardware ehci based > scheduling. Other platforms such as Beaglebone and Pi have serious > limitations in this respect and I would not want to hold out hope that > Pi ever fixes high speeds iso transfers. > 2) The CPU on a module approach makes it much easier and faster for John > to produce the hardware design, concentrating on the audio engineering > not the processor/memory etc. > > So yes if we looked for a lowest cost cpu platform we could have picked > something else, but we picked the Wandboard to get us good flexibility > and good performance which we believe is most important for this > project. That said the software will run on other platforms and there > are many people running it on Pi already (in cases where the usb > problems don't cause concerns)
Understood. Thanks for the info. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Miksis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=529 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98521 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
