Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design?

From	Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design?
Date	2015-06-10 22:06 +0200
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rickman wrote:

> On 6/10/2015 2:20 PM, Bernd Paysan wrote:
>> rickman wrote:
>>> I've lost track of cell phones these days.  Do they still mostly contain
>>> a TI DSP chip along with an ARM?  Or has the DSP become part of a custom
>>> ASIC?
>>
>> The whole thing had become a SoC, with the most important things
>> (including GPU and multi-core ARM for the smartphone functionality) all
>> on one chip. Broadcom and Samsung are the by far biggest contributors to
>> this market.
> 
> Are you saying cell phones do the DSP for the radio on the ARM or that
> the ARM chip includes separate DSP hardware?

Everything except power management (needs big, cheap power transistors), 
memory, touch screen controller, and camera sensor is on the SoC.  The 
mobile part today is called something like "LTE modem" or so ;-).

Companies without that know-how like Apple apparently still buy a standalone 
mobile part (LTE modem), which contains an ARM, DSP, antenna driver and 
amplifier.

-- 
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Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-06-02 04:05 -0400
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    Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2015-06-02 10:09 -0700
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      Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-06-05 11:32 +0000
        Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? djc <ciesinger@gmx.net> - 2015-06-05 05:01 -0700
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        Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-06-07 23:12 -0700
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          Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-06-10 09:05 -0700
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                Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-06-10 14:17 -0400
                Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-06-10 20:20 +0200
                Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-06-10 15:03 -0400
                Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-06-10 22:06 +0200
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  Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-06-02 14:27 -0400
  Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? Bob <bob@none.com> - 2015-06-02 16:04 -0400
  Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-06-03 05:17 +0000
  Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-06-03 03:07 -0400

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