New devices for DSP

Single-chip DSP devices offer many advantages over older implementation techniques. Cost, size, power consumption and reliability are all dramatically improved; in many cases, performance will also improve. Significantly, development time and costs are both lower when a single-chip DSP is used; this is of key importance in today´s environment of short product lifecycles. Two of the more prominent devices in this field are Motorola´s DSP56000 and DSP96000 devices. Both are single-chip DSP´s. The DSP56000 is a 24-bit fixed point processor, operating at over 13 MIPS. The DSP96000 is an IEEE-conformant floating-point derivative of the older DSP56000, peaking at 40 MFLOPS. The DSP96000 is software compatible with the DSP56000