Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: GPL Audio Hardware

From: fons adriaensen <fons.adriaensen@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Apr 06 2006 - 23:35:50 EEST

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 03:58:51PM -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 07:52:26PM -0500, Richard Smith wrote:
>
> > Getting that to fly in an FPGA however may be the problem as you start
> > running into clock speed limits. And an ASIC suffers from the lack of
> > startup cash.
>
> I've seen a 64 channel interface fit into a single Spartan 2E that was
> small enough to be supported free Xilinx Webpack. Since then, the
> current web pack supports spartan3s that are bigger and faster than that
> project used.

Right. FPGA sizes and speeds are absolutely not a limiting factor when
designing an audio interface. Forget about ASICs for small volumes, unless
you are already rich.

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