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- From: brucet@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Bruce Tulloch)
- Subject: Is the 96K an orphan chip ?
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- Keywords: dsp 96002
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- Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 02:13:49 GMT
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- My question for the DSP community is,
-
- Is the DSP96002 an orphan chip ?
-
- Motorola have produced some very good DSP chips over the last 5 or so
- years and I have used both the 56K and 96K effectively in a variety of
- projects. However, these days the competition is getting fierce. With
- the C30/C40, 21020, the DSP32C and it's decendants and even the dreaded
- i860, the 96K has a lot of company.
-
- Once upon a time (circa '88) Motorola announced the DSP96001 which was
- to be "the first member of Motorola's Family of single chip HCMOS,
- low-power, general purpose, IEEE floating point DSPs." Whatever
- happened to it ? Does anyone know whether Motorola intend to develop
- the 96K family further, particularly in the *down market* direction ?
-
- I am aware of the DSP296002 and the functional modifications to the
- basic DSP96002 such as the program cache and simultaneous 32 bit
- integer and 64 bit floating point register usage - all very nice but
- still rather expensive. What I'd really like to see is Motorola do with
- the 96K what they are doing with the 56K - lower prices and on-chip
- perhiperals. High speed serial ports, communications links, more DMA
- etc, maybe at the expense of one of the external memory interfaces,
- would be great, just like TI only with the far superior (IMHO) 96K
- core. Is this just wishful thinking ? Will it ever happen ? Should I
- forget the 96K altogether and use the TI chips for these facilities ?
-
- Maybe the term "digital signal processor" for this chip a misnomer ?
- Perhaps "high performance IEEE floating point coprocessor for really
- high end applications" is a better name :-)
-
- Any opinions on this subject are welcome :-)
-
- brucet
-
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- bruce tulloch sydney australia - brucet@extro.ucc.su.oz.au
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