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The following is the hardware profile of our system of choice:
PCM 5896
• AMD K6-2-333 MHz
• 32 MB RAM
• IDE, FDD ports
• Ensoniq ES1373 sound interface
• Reltek 100Base-Tx Fast Ethernet controller
• PCI and PC/104 expansion slots
• +5V and +12V power supplies
The PCM 5896 also needs a soft jumper switch in order to finish the connection in the
ATX power supply. Other accessories used were VGA connector, keyboard connector,
audi connectors, and Ethernet connectors.
PCM-3115 PCMCIA PC/104 Module
• Two PCMCIA slots
• +5V power
• busy and battery status LED
4.2 SOFTWARE:
4.2.1 APPLICATION SOFTWARE
Since our product was an integration of different pre-developed components, we chose to
go with already built software.
At first we chose the command line Voice over IP software developed by students in
Spring 2000 ECE4005. This was an attractive choice because the software had been
developed for Linux and had been tested and demonstrated extensively. Better still David
Jeffery, one of the authors of this software was our Lab TA and would therefore be
knowledgeable about it. He had also worked with Lucent wavelan wireless networking
for Linux and would therefore prove to be a valuable source of information and expertise.
We also looked at Voxilla at this time but were put off by its report that it was in a
constant state of development and the unreliability of the documentation due to this state
of flux.
So things looked good for our choice of indigenously developed command line Voice
over IP software. Later into the game this rosy outlook proved ill founded. This was
because although the software had been tested on Linux Desktops, there were no
assurances about their portability on to an embedded platform.
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