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To: Mary Remington who wrote (3858)6/27/1998 12:09:00 AM
From: Time Traveler  Read Replies (1) of 6180
 
Marry and otter,

DSPs are actually math coprocessors with more specialized tasks. DSPs are designed to do multiplications and immediately additions in a very efficient matter.

Although the telecommunications industry demands powerful DSPs to detect rational weak signals among a vast sea of background noise and other compression and decompression functions, mundane DSP functions have been taken over by less powerful DSPs found embedded within another system, for example, the MMX of Pentium and K6.

TI and Lucent (the old AT&T Microelectronics) are the leaders in high-end DSPs. Motorola and Analog Devices found a niche in the lower end voice processing area of DSPs. NEC and other companies escape my detection. I suspect NEC might have powerful DSPs in their portfolio as well.

With more and more integration from generation of silicon to another, DSPs are gradually incorporated into other silicon which from the earlier example I have given, even the x86 CPUs got them nowadays. Of course, this does not mean TI's ever so powerful DSP won't grow. In fact, I do like TI's `silicon' library approach. This company can deliver an IC with almost anything you specify. The question is how about the competitions. Do they have a better solution? I don't know. Would Intel or AMD offer anything with an adequate performing DSP incorporated into a CPU? In the voice applications area: probably; in the data detection area: probably not yet.

Good luck with regards to all,
Time Traveler
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