Bob Stuart says alot of things, many of which are not true. If we'd all listen to Bob, we'd stick to DVD for another couple of years and forget about HD. :rolleyes:

FPGAs are very common, if you look hard enough, you'll probably find coffee machines that have FPGAs and are fully programmable. That doesn't mean you can use them as a phone...

Of course all videoprocessors are programmable, but not fully as Bob wants us to believe. Their current hardware is very limited, but of course Bob wants to sell his stuff and I can't blame him for making claims that are not 100% accurate. Everyone does, just look at Microsoft and the piece of junk they call an operating system.

But again, with their current hardware, they will not implement certain features. Some features could be done, even with current hardware. Why they do not give us all these features, I don't know. But then again, it's Meridian pissing off (potential)customers, not me. wink


FPGAs are universal and probably cheaper (depends on the design), but way less efficient. It's a question of what you'd want to do with it. You don't need TFlops of performance for a cell phone or coffee machine...

The MRI example is a little flawed isn't it? All the image processing is done in software on worksations. That's where the performance is. Play a little with Syngo on older and newer workstations and see how that turns out. Big reduction in scanning time, even compared to the old Numaris.

- Stephan