Michael (Micksa) Slade wrote: > Look for a chip labelled "xilinx" or "altera". > > Regardless, I would guess that the decoding hardware in the ASIC(s) is > designed to be flexible enough to be usable with newer technologies, > provided they fit a certain profile. For example, IIRC mpeg1, mpeg2, > mpeg4 and theora are all based on DCTs and probably have a few other > things in common, so these sub-processes would likely be doable in > silicon, leaving the software with the less CPU-intensiive stuff, and > putting it all together. This is assuming, of course, that the guys at > Sigma know what they are doing. > > Erik, please feel free to enlighten me if I'm guessing wrong :)
Without actually inspecting the thing myself, I would ask myself why have an ASIC and an FPGA instead of just having an FPGA? Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Question #27304: Ruling on talking to women at work http://islamqa.com/index.php?ln=eng&ds=qa&lv=browse&QR=27304&dgn=4 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
