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To: S100 who wrote (17847)	1/15/2002 4:55:02 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 34857

The Flashing Happiness of Flashable Software Implementation!! Cannot think of one baseband signal processing, nor data protocol, function being implemented in unflashable hardware in a GSM phone?? Nor of any programmable Xilinx nor Altera chips that can run in a handset. Ilmarinen Has QCOM already figured out how they will make everything in "hardware", somebody claimed on could save 20% of the power by doubling the chip area, and making sure any little layout change will be really expensive and so slow to get into production that one better not do them. (just try to get rid of the old wafers in any kind of way) That is probably why GSM does not have turbo codes, until they either are stable and decided on, or can be done in easily modifiable, upgradable form.