Comments by "Peter S" (@Peter_S_) on "The Wall Street Journal" channel.

  1. You won't find those chips in a washing machine, but the Analog Devices Blackfin DSP could be used in a DJ or karaoke setup. Washing machines are also too simple, high volume, and low cost to make use of DSPs or Xilinx FPGAs like the Spartan-3 sitting next to the Analog Device ADSP-BF561. The Spartan-3 series is a 20 year old chip design which has been out of production for a very, very long time.
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  2.  @ZynzeNycraile  Washing machines use MCUs, not DSPs or FPGAs. DIfferent kind of chips. The Blackfin DSP shown is the sort of thing you might find in a karaoke machine or a guitar stompbox.
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  3.  @get2thechopper548  The Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA on the board at 20 seconds is from 21 years go. Pretty old stuff. The current generation is Spartan-7.
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