Walter, a while back, you asked what a DSP was. I answered you in easy to understand terms about how it relates to NCII's product.
Here is a more thorough definition, and the URL, (link) to look up further annoying acronyms and technical terms. You probably found it already, but for those that haven't....PS, the last paragraph would most apply to the NCII product. Best, Savant
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techweb.com
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DSP
(1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing. It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive signal processing applications. DSP chips are widely used in myriads of devices, including sound cards, fax machines, modems, cellular phones, high-capacity hard disks and digital TVs (see definition 2 below). The first DSP chip used in a commercial product was believed to be from TI, which was used in its very popular Speak & Spell game in the late 1970s.
(2) (Digital Signal Processing) A category of techniques that analyze signals from sources such as sound, weather satellites and earthquake monitors. Signals are converted into digital data and analyzed using various algorithms such as Fast Fourier Transform.
Once a signal has been reduced to numbers, its components can be isolated, analyzed and rearranged more easily than in analog form. DSP is used in many fields including biomedicine, sonar, radar, seismology, speech and music processing, imaging and communications.
DSP chips are used in sound cards for recording and playback, compressing and decompressing and speech synthesis. Other audio uses are in amplifiers that simulate concert halls and surround sound effects for music and home theater.
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