[Open-graphics] A really good immediate use for OGD1: PCI bus analyzer

[Timothy Miller]

On 1/3/07, Lourens Veen <lourens at rainbowdesert.net> wrote:

> Which is compression. Another way to say this is that we use
> RLE-compression between the capture and the on-board storage, rather
> than between the storage and the output. This is nice memory-wise, but
> it does complicate seeking to a specific time, since there's no 1:1
> correspondence between time and bit position anymore.

We have more memory than we need, and the compression logic we've been
discussing is not very bulky.  We need compression only for data
transport.  We can decompress before writing to memory so that seeking
is easy.

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Timothy Miller
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti