State of the art

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Henk" == Henk Gooijen <Gooijen> writes:

 Henk> ...  and then there is a nice DSP on the modern soundcards.
 Henk> HAM radio amateurs use the soundcard DSP to decode those chirpy
 Henk> signals you can hear on short wave. Even signals burried in
 Henk> "noise" produce text on your screen.  A good example is MixW,
 Henk> but there are several!

Sure, but the sound card DSP tends to be a pretty low powered DSP.

I think the typical signal processing in GigE or disk read channel
applications starts with analog to digital conversion at close to a
gigasample per second, and then doing DSP on the resulting data
stream.  Sound card DSPs are designed for data rates in the few dozen
k samples per second.

    paul