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[WTMHouston]

I appreciate your effort at explaining.

<<I suppose that since the FPGAs act like the final ASIC product would, NVEI refers to it as a "simulation." I do not like this terminology since this is completely different from a computer "simulation" during which FPGA code, line conditions and data would all be simulated inside a computer. The terminology makes it confusing.>>

Amen to the confusing part. The confusing label aside, what then was it that NVEI just did with Maine Telco? NVEI has called it a "simulation," but it apparently was not done with a FPGA. How would what they just did differ from a similar test using a FPGA? Would it even be a similar test?

Is there something magic or revealing in:

The results of this first in a cycle of simulations indicate that New Visual's underlying signal processing and simulation technology works as expected.

Was this primarily a test of the "simulation technology?" What about this description:

The objective of the test was to determine if New Visual's sophisticated field simulation model accurately measures and adjusts for noise and attenuation, which determines the signal-to-noise ratio, a key measure of the performance of a transmission technology.

This sure seems to suggest that they were testing their "field simulation model" and not the actual "transmission technology." Is that a fair and-or accurate reading of the material? Would that explain why no FPGA was used in the testing?

Might that also explain why the tests and results did not create more of a market reaction?

It sure does seem like this current sentence from NVEI indicates that there is not a prototype, despite what they displayed at the SH meeting, unless they have just been sloppy in how they have described things either on the web site or at the SH meeting.

The technology will pass through a series of simulations before a prototype is developed.


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