On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 8:33 AM Sebastien F4GRX <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The problem with the need for power is that imho codec2 has become too heavy 
> to run on simple platforms.

I think the fast FP technology is standard now on $5 USD CPU's (simple
platforms). Most of the integer only designs are for use much closer
to the hardware. I'm even seeing fast double precision FP in cheap
CPU's.

The new argument, I think, is integer based FPGA versus floating point
CPU, or more specifically parallel versus serial. The problem is, who
wants to program FPGA or CPU's in machine language? Life is too short.

Is Open Source defined by the cost of the tools or the documentation
to duplicate?

For example, I had to invest in a Discovery board in order to play
with the Open Source code. Extrapolate from that :-)


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