[TenTec] Noise Reduction Setting

Barry Gross barry.n1eu at gmail.com
Fri Dec 8 07:05:20 EST 2006


On 12/8/06, Gary Hoffman <ghoffman at spacetech.com> wrote:
> Ok Grant....
>
> I'm not trying to split hairs with you or be blindly
> argumentative....however, a DSP processor does nothing else, by the
> definition of the term.  If it is a general purpose processor, capable of
> doing "something else" then by definition, it is not a DSP processor, which
> is not capable (in general) of doing something else, and in practice, is not
> used to do something else.

Gary, the Orion uses a dedicated Analog Devices SHARC dsp chip.  On
the 81917_5 schematic it is denoted as AD21056L (ADSP-21065?).
There's a Motorola Dragon Ball cpu to handle general processing.

73,

Barry N1EU
n1eu.com


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