It's the paragraphs before and after the one you quoted that describe my "worries" for Spotify. The one you quoted is for anything that really needs to be added to the firmware of the Expert and can't be made an integral part of Spark (or Dialog) and this could also be true for Spotify Connect. But let's just forget it, there's too many if's and uncertain parameters, at least for me. Time will tell what become possible with or without the Dialog.
I did find what's running inside any Phantom; it's a Cyclone V SoC (introduced in 2011) with integrated dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor running @800MHz and 512MB of RAM.
https://www.altera.com/products/fpga/cyc...rview.html
The Experts have (besides separate powerful 400MHz DSP's) the smallest (EP3C5) Cyclone III FPGA's (introduced in 2007) with 32MB of RAM. These don't have a powerful general purpose ARM CPU integrated. https://www.altera.com/products/fpga/cyc...e-iii.html
Unknown for me is the amount of non volatile storage (e.g. flash memory) available in both.
The Phantoms are thus much, much more powerful on the general purpose computing side of things.
I did find what's running inside any Phantom; it's a Cyclone V SoC (introduced in 2011) with integrated dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor running @800MHz and 512MB of RAM.
https://www.altera.com/products/fpga/cyc...rview.html
The Experts have (besides separate powerful 400MHz DSP's) the smallest (EP3C5) Cyclone III FPGA's (introduced in 2007) with 32MB of RAM. These don't have a powerful general purpose ARM CPU integrated. https://www.altera.com/products/fpga/cyc...e-iii.html
Unknown for me is the amount of non volatile storage (e.g. flash memory) available in both.
The Phantoms are thus much, much more powerful on the general purpose computing side of things.
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