PCI or MiniPCI Hardware DSP for G.729, G.723.1 and/or GSM
- From: Andrew Kohlsmith <akohlsmith-asterisk (at) benshaw.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:24:02 -0400
On Saturday 24 June 2006 09:44, Paul Hewlett wrote:
> I would imagine that this would not solve any problems - the extra overhead
> of piping the data over the PCI bus would very quickly negate any speed
> gains of the DSP over the native Intel FPU. Additionally you would probably
> introduce extra latency. I did quite a lot of work on DSP co-processor
> boards and there was always a considerable startup time when all the data
> pipes had to be filled.
Talk to Digium, they're releasing a PCI DSP board that does exactly this. I
guess that the PCI overhead isn't as great as was first thought? Interesting
times...
-A.
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