[comp.arch] DSP96002 Motorola's Countach

benoitm@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Benoit Menendez) (12/15/88)

This is from the technical summary for the Motorola DSP96002:

Parallelism - The data ALU, AGUs, and program controller operate in parallel
within the CPU so that an instruction prefetch, up to three floating-point
operations, two data moves, and two address pointer updates, using one of three
types of arithmetic (linear, modulo, or reverse carry), can be executed in a
single instruction cycle. This parallelism allows 40 MFLOP peak performance.

    - Ten registers each 96 bit wide
    - 1024 point complex FFT in less than 2ms
    - Clocked at 26.67 MHz

I am sure that somebody out there wants one for their CD player :-)

		Benoit

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