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To: BostonView who wrote (1659)	4/25/2000 7:43:00 AM
From: Jim Oravetz	Read Replies (1) of 2882

Not sure what kind of feedback you are looking for. This new part sounds very interesting - for the right application. Digital Signal Processing functions - filtering, convolution, discrete fourier transforms etc. have moved from software/firmware controlled DSP chips to "dedicated hardware" implementations only with the advent of larger configurable field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices. This was more the result of FPGA vendors - Xilinx, Altera, Atmel - looking for more markets to sell into. For most functions, dedicated hardware can outperform a DSP chip/software implementation. FPGA's, in general, can be configured to perform any digital logic function- counters, adders, multiplexing. This device seems to got beyond the "general" nature of FPGA's and is specifically targeted to doing math functions - multiply-accumulate(MAC). Math functions are what DSP is all about. As far as ADI and other DSP chip vendors, this may take away some business. There are however, many DSP chip implementations were the DSP does some very general purpose functions, just like a cheap microcontroller. Jim

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