Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] open-source like hardware
From: Joe Pfeiffer (pfeiffer_AT_cs.nmsu.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 16 2002 - 21:27:03 EET
Jussi Laako writes:
> Paul Davis wrote:
> >
> > the chip design is not open source. its a proprietary device,
> > manufactured in industrial quantities. i don't see it as at all
> > similar to the ideas discussed in this thread.
>
> It's just an interface chip. As FPGA or DSP processor discussed here. Nobody
> was planning to make their own DSP processor, AD or DA converter. Just build
> something based on such chips. ICE1712 doesn't do anything useful on its
> own. ICEnsemble is IC producer, like TI or Motorola.
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.
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