Rene Rebe writes: > > > > It would be nice to be able to use a chip that isn't single-source, > > though -- like a 7400 in the TTL world. You could argue that a 7400 > > isn't open in the sense of open-source code, but its specs are > > completely open and there are myriad vendors. > > Erm. I do not think that there are reasonable DSPs out that are not > _single-source_ ... - There might be some 8051 compatible or 68k > compatible �Cs ... - but often this is only on the software level and > you have to redesign your board ...
I don't know of any, either -- I didn't mean to claim that we should be using non-single source chips, I meant that it would be nice if we could. This would move us a bit closer to my idea of the open-source model. -- Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D. Phone -- (505) 646-1605 Department of Computer Science FAX -- (505) 646-1002 New Mexico State University http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer Southwestern NM Regional Science and Engr Fair: http://www.nmsu.edu/~scifair
