Le lundi 03 juillet 2006 à 09:13 -0400, Timothy Miller a écrit : > 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. :) What´s inside a printer on a network ? I suppose that there´s a board, but is there a CPU upon it or a chip with a microcontroller ? > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
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