Comment by benj111
7 hours ago
As someone not involved in this space I assumed there was specialist hardware. My pi Pico can do fancy things with DMA etc, without the CPU at all.
So why isn't there this kind of stuff in routers?
7 hours ago
As someone not involved in this space I assumed there was specialist hardware. My pi Pico can do fancy things with DMA etc, without the CPU at all.
So why isn't there this kind of stuff in routers?
There is, and it is. Just not in this specific SoC, originally intended for general-purpose computing.
So why would CPU speed be the bottleneck then?
Because this board doesn't have specialized routing hardware and will have to do everything in CPU.