Dieter wrote:
Am I correct in thinking that a SATA controller would be easier and faster to design than a graphics/video controller, and that it would cost significantly less to get an ASIC fabbed?
Is it anything more than a parallel to serial and serial to parallel converter. a DMA controller, and the line transceiver?
If we were going to market an X server on a card, this would good to include since it would give the X server direct access to the disk for a swap partition without going through the computer -- only arbitrate on the bus on the card.
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