EDN Special Report: 32-bit floating-point DSP processors. (digital signal processing) (Cover Story)

From: EDN | Date: November 7, 1991| Author: Weiss, Ray | Copyright information

Currently-available 32-bit floating-point digital signal processors (DSP) provide between 25 million and 50 million floating-point operations per second (MFLOPS), but engineers used to conventional microprocessors must learn new processing architectures and programming limitations when using DSPs. The latest 32-bit floating-point DPSs combine the addressing range of 32-bit RISC chips and the number-crunching functions of near-supercomputer vector processors; high-level languages such as C can...

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