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Digital Signal Processor (
DSP) is a
specialized microprocessor designed specifically for
digital signal processing. DSPs can also be used to perform general-purpose computation, but they are not optimised for this function.
Instead, they are usually optimised for:
- multiply-add operations
- deep pipelining
- DMA processing
Most DSPs are fixed-point DSPs. However, floating point DSPs are common for more demanding applications.
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