kb...@n1k.org said: > The astonishing part of this ânew worldâ is that a very complex chip that > is > made in high volume is cheaper than a handful of less popular (but far less > complex) chips.
It would be interesting to see the die sizes. Another advantage of the CPU solution is that you can make a large class of changes by just tweaking the software. For example changing the input from 10 MHz to 5 MHz or 1 MHz. That's also a disadvantage - somebody has to write the software. Adding software to a project adds another layer of management problems. If the software is really simple that's not much of a problem, you write it once and debug it and then you don't have to fix any bugs. But software easily gets complicated which means bugs, and hardware guys are often poor at software engineering and/or project management when software is involved. (Software geeks are usually bad at it too.) -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.
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