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- From: herzling@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Alexander Herzlinger [RHRK])
- Subject: Re: Falcon's DSP (again)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.114248.13704@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
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- Reply-To: herzling@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Alexander Herzlinger [RHRK])
- Organization: University of Kaiserslautern (Germany)
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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 11:42:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep1.091253.1944@rhrk.uni-kl.de>, seimet@rhrk.uni-kl.de
- (Uwe Seimet) writes:
- |>kjohnson@castor.cs.uga.edu (Kristopher Johnson) writes:
- |>
- |>>In article <1992Aug31.134858.13698@hsr.no> leikvoll@hsr.no (Morten
- Leikvoll) writes:
- |>>>Will the DSP have access to the main memory???
- |>>>If not....terrible
- |>>>If yes....where can I buy this thing NOW!
- |>>>
- |>>>Morten Leikvoll / leikvoll@hsr.no
- |>
- |>>Yes, virtually everything has direct access to main memory, including the
- |>>DSP, BLiTTER, SCSI-II port, and more.
- |>Wrong! The DSP has no direct access to main memory. Data are transferred via
- |>a parallel bus at a maximum speed of 1 MB/s.
- |>
-
- I think what Kristopher meant is that the DSP cannot only communicate
- via the DSP hostport but also can use the DMA Read/Write Devices. So the
- DSP give Data to the DMA device wich put it into main memory. No 030
- is involved in that.
-
- Bye,
- Alex
-
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- Alexander Herzlinger
- Email: herzling@rhrk.uni-kl.de
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