Sampo à écrit: Seriously, if even this kind of a list really wanted to make something happen, we could easily forget about PLAs, FPGAs, Arms, Intels and everything else. The price of a pure pedal-to-the-metal ASIC is so low, and it's allure so great to major hardware manufacturers (if done right), that we could actually jump to that final semiconductor technology right now. Seriously. :) ___
I'm usually negative about IP (patents, registered designs, ...), but an anecdote: Knew a zoologist who invented a wonderful gadget. Published the design. Then went to a manufacturer. They agreed it was wonderful, but said that tooling up to make it did not make commercial sense, as once they'd 'created the market' they would be undercut and they'd lose out. So if you want to be sure of a manufacturer you may need to be able to licence it. Sure you can insist on sensible pricing as part of the licence (and not take any revenue oneself ...). Michael PS Minor point,not worth responding at the time: But my 'daisy-chaining' argument did involve a 'chain', i.e. a bit of wire between boxes ... for the synch, the clock, whatever ... MC _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
