Re: drivers/telephony and winmodems

From: Carlos Morgado (chbm@hal.chbm.nu)
Date: Wed Jan 19 2000 - 16:50:14 EST


On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 09:45:20PM +0800, Steve Underwood wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Seriously, most telephony hardware is multi-line (up to 4xE1 and 120 channels of
> voice processing per card currently), approved in lots of countries, and generally
> in a different class to a Winmodem. However, the DSP on the
> DSP-but-no-microcontroller Winmodems is adequate for many reasonable low bit rate
> vocoders (generally low bit rate == lots of DSP horse power needed for
> compression). Their low price makes reprogramming them as single line vocoders
> quite appealing.
>

Do you know which dsps are usually used on winmodems ?
For instance, tms320c[345]x are a dimme a dozen and carry quite a lot of
horse power for vocoders. motorola dsps are equally cheap and powerfull but
i'm not familiar with their dsp line.

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