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[filmscanners] RE: Newish Digital Tech
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>From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
>> Yes. All of them have special-purpose DSPs. The last 10 years has seen a
>> phenomenal increase in chip size, complexity, speed. And special-purpose
>> hardware is always faster than general-purpose.
>
>You may be right about that. I haven't taken apart either of my digicams,
>nor do I have service manuals. I'd be curious to see any pointers to
>descriptions of the hardware inside a consumer digicams.
www.zoran.com
www.sierraimaging.com
www.ti.com (TMS320DSC)
etc.
These are some of the chips used in today's digital cameras. One other
reason to use such chips is that they don't use as much power as your P4
1.7Ghz CPU....
Rob
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