2009/2/27 Wilton Helm <wh...@compuserve.com> > > I assume that the relevant application requires some non-trivial CPU > power. I would > > exclude e.g. a 486-based systems. > > I'm not sure that's the case. The industry has gone in the direction of > throwing lots of silicon at a problem, often as an excuse for poorly written > code, sometimes in an interpreted language. There are a number of high > integration CPUs out there that I suspect could do this sort of thing. I > develop device controllers for a variety of industry needs. They tend to > have Ethernet, RS-232, sometimes 1 Mb/s synchronous communication. G711, > quarter VGA color LCD with touchscreen and control loops running at about a > 1 ms rate. The entire code takes less than 256K in C. My choice of > processor is the DStni Ex (made by Lantronix and sold by Grid Connect) which > is a high integration, high speed 186 core with two 10/100 Ethernet Ports > and 256K of RAM on it in addition to the usual assortment of other stuff. > The above required platform adds three support chips (one being the LCD > controller). The CPU can run over 100 MHz. Memory accesses take one clock > and typical instructions take two or three. Cost is in the $10 to $20 range > for the chip and power consumption is around 1 W (the LCD backlight takes > more than that!) > > I'm sure there are several other comparable platforms out there, such as by > Digi International. The Geode is a good candidate as are some VIA chips, if > one wants to use protected mode x86. The biggest thing for this is don't > even consider Intel. For most of their life they have not provided cutting > edge solutions for embedded use. Most of their stuff consumes too much > power. And most importantly, they are targeting the very volatile, short > lived PC market. By the time you get an embedded design up and running and > reach market penetration, you won't be able to buy the chip any more. > > Wilton > > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
I wonder what kind of hardware snom use, they got linux, they got openvpn. I would be nice to have that, and yes i want a gui, maybe not embedded to reduce load, but something like an external config generator software would be nice.
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