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To: SteveG who wrote (2321)	1/16/1998 3:59:00 AM
From: SteveG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9236

Upon further research and reflection, my reference to a single chip "digital" solution out of ADI and TXN appears to have been incorrect. I remembered reading that ADI won 3COM business (away from TXN) with a single TOTAL chip (ie., both analog AND DSP) 56K solution. At the time I (errantly) presumed this approach would be applied to ADSL, at least with the digital components. Larry Brew's post (the TXN post I url'd) reinforced this idea in me. Whereas it certainly might, no announcements to this effect have been made. And from other research, I would doubt this is being pursued - at least not with DSP. As I understand, MOT has tried to get analog and ASIC on a single chip, and continues to struggle. My GUESS is that the single-chip mixed signal approach that Larry mentioned, was NOT for ADSL was stated, but for the 56K business they lost from 3COM (their biggest buyer). I may be wrong, and I'll ask that he verify this (as I will also attempt to do). But the pieces didn't seem to fit quite right in my previous post, so I thought this follow-up appropriate (if uncertain). Details of the Falcon that I posted are, however, correct to the best of my knowledge. It seem that PAIR may have the best (ie., most efficient in power, size, cost, yields, etc) ADSL solution available (WHEN it comes available <g>). Another long day (how 'bout that SLOT and WCII?) Steve

To: SteveG who wrote (2321)	1/16/1998 9:16:00 AM
From: Andreas Helke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9236

Hello Steve, The DSL landscape is really intereting. We are now running more than a year late compared with the plans of two years ago. But if the telcos would have moved faster they would have been left without equipment because the development of mass deployable equipment took much longer than expected and mostly is still unfinished. I find it very interesting but logical that TI develops a special purpose DSL chip. If they bothered to pay $400 million for Amati technology they really take the DSL market seriously. And I suspected all along that the the TI C6x DSP solution was a decent choice for central office equipment where you can run 2 to 4 lines on one C6x chip but overpowered and too expensive for CPE equipment. Andreas