MsPacMan

Good point. Our serious number crunching is in the base, though. Add five copies of the remote, plus echo cancellation, mixing, and all that and there is a lot an FPGA could do. It wouldn't save anything, however. The DSP is still needed.

Since we bought the function...

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needle

Depends whether the original firmware guy is still there, though...often, getting somebody to change somebody else's working firmware is a complete can of worms.

OTOH, since you can still make the previous version, at least there's a revenue stream paying for all that mucking about.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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The lead programmer is still around. Actually, they all are with the exception of the guy who went to the FBI. Chasing terrorists was more fun, evidently.

It's an opportunity cost issue. That's above my pay grade. I give them the numbers and they tell me what to work on. Well, I gave them the numbers nine months ago...

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Being on my own, and working mainly with startups, I can assure you that opportunity cost is a much nicer thing to worry about than cash flow!

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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I understand. Before we got the TI DSP boat right-side-up there was no cash flow. The owner isn't wanting to go back there, for some reason. He now has a choice, save tens of buck per copy or make something new. The only advantage I see of doing yet another redesign is that he doesn't have to actually build anything (more) to put that money in his pocket. The engineering costs are fixed.

Well known from bed of nails testers. You would kind of need to convert the scope probe to use one, not pretty.

By the container? Let's see, about 5000 on a 7 inch tape reel. A container is about 500,000,000? Sorry, my 'rithmetic is crashing on me.

those

That is a mildly pricey shirt. I generally get shirts for $20 each or less.