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>Why would you even want to try and network an array a
>disparate microprocessors in a radio? I'm not sure if
>I can fully follow the logic of using 5 or 6
>processors in a ham rig anyhow? What could they all
>possibly be doing that can't be handled by other
>simpler means? One thing to date that the import radio
>makers haven't done is expand their concept of what a
>radio really is, they are still just incrementally
>expanding on the rather narrowly defined classic
>transceiver concept that goes back more than 40 years.
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If they go forward, then network of microprocessors may be an alternative.
Arrays and network of microprocessors in large electronic systems such as a
radar common digitizer are common. Even in the late seventies a radar
digitizer was built that 18 microprocessors working on a common buss this
didn't count the ones used in the display.
As you say for a functions in a transceiver what would be the need? Who
knows what will be used as the bells and whistles keep increasing on radios.
Jim, wd4air
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