The article says: "The Pizzicato digital radio transmitter consists of an integrated circuit outputting a single stream of bits, and an antenna ".
That doesn't sound like 'Purely from Microprocessor Tech' to me. It sounds like a strap-on peripheral chip, which is not at all 'Purely microprocessor.'
The article says: "The Pizzicato digital radio transmitter consists of an integrated circuit outputting a single stream of bits, and an antenna ".
That doesn't sound like 'Purely from Microprocessor Tech' to me. It sounds like a strap-on peripheral chip, which is not at all 'Purely microprocessor.'
At a guess: the engineer came up with some cool ideas that simplified things/made them smaller/gave some technical advantage, then marketting completely misrepresented their work via this festering pile of half-understood buzzwords and hype.
Outputting a stream of bits into an antenna? With no convential radio circuits (like filters, DA converters, PWM, amps etc)? No. Just no.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Friday March 06, 2015 @03:18AM (#49194671)
Explicitly no DAC and PWM as this is being done through switching. I'd hazard a guess that the RF amplifier isn't integrated, but it's an extremely cheap and compact device.
B.S. Alert (Score:5, Insightful)
No actual info in article, just hype and buzzwords.
Re: (Score:1)
You mean like IoT? I cringe when I see that lol.
Re: (Score:3, Informative)
The article says: "The Pizzicato digital radio transmitter consists of an integrated circuit outputting a single stream of bits, and an antenna ".
That doesn't sound like 'Purely from Microprocessor Tech' to me. It sounds like a strap-on peripheral chip, which is not at all 'Purely microprocessor.'
Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
The article says: "The Pizzicato digital radio transmitter consists of an integrated circuit outputting a single stream of bits, and an antenna ".
That doesn't sound like 'Purely from Microprocessor Tech' to me. It sounds like a strap-on peripheral chip, which is not at all 'Purely microprocessor.'
At a guess: the engineer came up with some cool ideas that simplified things/made them smaller/gave some technical advantage, then marketting completely misrepresented their work via this festering pile of half-understood buzzwords and hype.
Outputting a stream of bits into an antenna? With no convential radio circuits (like filters, DA converters, PWM, amps etc)? No. Just no.
Re:B.S. Alert (Score:0)
Explicitly no DAC and PWM as this is being done through switching. I'd hazard a guess that the RF amplifier isn't integrated, but it's an extremely cheap and compact device.