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To: Semyon Kuretsky who wrote (5660)	2/23/1999 6:07:00 PM
From: Marc Bejarano	Read Replies (1) of 11417

Here is something to think about: go2net.newsalert.com very interesting... i didn't realize that SMSC was getting into the pc chipset business. this would allow them to imbed the embassy technology somewhere closer to the heart of the pc. the current solution as far as i know it is to put the embassy in the i/o chip. it is my understanding that this chip is connected to the rest of the system via the ISA bus. though we know that the meter (at least in the old wavemeter form) supports high-speed decryption of 100Mb/s (roughly 12MB/s), i have always wondered how we could get that data to the CPU/RAM, etc if our device was hanging off of the i/o chip in its current incarnation. ISA doesn't provide nearly enough bandwidth and DMA transfers require a separate channel for each device. if SMSC incorporates the embassy into a full-fledged chipset, the meter can hang off of the pci bus where we have unlimited DMA through bus-mastering and 133MB/s of bandwidth. or maybe they can introduce the embassy-bus? ;) i would love for steven to clarify just where SMSC is planning on putting the embassy. all we have heard so far is that it will be integrated into the I/O chip. how? marc ps: for some interesting reading, check out mp3.com . i wonder if Jim Griffin has ever heard of the wave meter? pps: the 100Mb/s number comes from Message 2917946 gosh... that seems like years ago....

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