On 7/3/06, Lourens Veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 03 July 2006 12:24, Timothy Miller wrote:
> On 7/3/06, Lourens Veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Are you suggesting that we could eliminate the general purpose
> > > CPU altogether? Can we get data from the Ethernet chip into this
> > > Theora chip without a CPU?
> >
> > Exactly. I'm not sure how far we can integrate this and whether
> > having everything custom is the right solution, but the idea is
> > that we:
>
> Where's your TCP/IP stack?
Conveniently swept under the carpet :-). You're right, I thought of that
too after sending. We may not need TCP though, just UDP, unless you
want HTTP streaming as well as RTP/RTSP.
> You won't be using a normal ethernet chip. You'd be using one with a
> microcontroller in it and a tiny network stack. Any other chip
> requires a CPU.
Do these exist? For a reasonable price? I looked around for a bit but
couldn't immediately find anything...
I would expect so. I've worked with a USB chip with a microcontroller
in it with like 1K words of program memory. An ethernet chip would
need more program memory, but surely it exists.
If not, we should consider designing one. :)
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