jlg3@uafhcx.uucp (Jennifer L. Garner) (06/02/90)
It is better to think of the 96002 as an extension (a good one, mind you) of the DSP 56001. Software developed for the 56001 only needs to be recompiled to be functional on the 96002. From the Motorola DSP 96001 data book (different mainly in the external port configuration, may not be produced by Motorola): 13.33 million instructions per second The ALU provides conformance with IEEE 754-1985 spec for binary floating point calculations An instruction prefetch, up to three floating point operations, two data moves, and two address pointer updates can be done in a single instruction cycle, providing up to 40 MFLOPS peak performance. The 96002 started life as a DSP processor, but potentially can cover a lot of coprocessing territory. Yes, it would make a dandy coprocessor for the Amiga 3000... Don Kennedy Greg Garner Jennifer Garner Vision Quest