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To: engineer who wrote (31421)	6/1/1999 12:16:00 PM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Engineer - Thanks. A further question: What functions of the MSM chip is still special-purpose-hardware/analog, and more particularly what is the hardest part of the CDMA piece? For instance, I assumed that the Rake Filter would have still been special purpose hardware as opposed to being done in the DSP with 'software' since correlation at 1.25Mbps done 3 or 4 (or 6 for the MSM 3100) times seems pretty fast for todays technology? (e.g. does the DSP just provide the bit streams to be correlated by analog filters?) Clark PS I realize semantics enters in here (i.e. what exactly qualifies as a DSP?), but just curious about what the state of the art currently is.