DSP Microarchitctures.pptVIP

DSP Microarchitctures Wen-mei Hwu ECE University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign What is DSP Embedded microprocessors that are designed to handle digital signal processing applications in a very cost effective manner Current market leaders TI, Motorola, Lucent 1998 market - $3.5Billions Nature of DSPs DSPs utilize special hardware to meet performance, power, and price points Sacrifice orthogonality and ease-of-use to meet goals Assume hand-assembly or libraries used for core algorithms Compiler mostly used for control and glue logic Common DSP Features Circular addressing address register