As most people know, the new Moto-X as well as the new Droid series will include two DSPs in addition to the main ARM SoC CPU. One is a "contextual processor" that handles sensor input, the other is a "natural language processore" that handles voice commands. Motorola's VP of Engineering said that without these DSPs the phone would need two extra batteries to handle the functionality for always-on voice recognition, wrist flick camera, always on notifications, etc.
Question - Is there going to be some sort of abstraction layer over DSP functions with an API accessible to apps running in Dalvik? That's the key question IMO. If so, this could be really big. If you need to write native code in C/ASM that's specific to each particular piece of hardware, then it's a dismal failure. Has any info on this been released?
Question - Is there going to be some sort of abstraction layer over DSP functions with an API accessible to apps running in Dalvik? That's the key question IMO. If so, this could be really big. If you need to write native code in C/ASM that's specific to each particular piece of hardware, then it's a dismal failure. Has any info on this been released?