This article was originally published by computer historian Ken Shirriff on his blog. Thanks to his kind permission, the article is reproduced here. Eine Übertragung ins Deutsche ist ebenfalls ...

Across a range of applications, the two most common functions implemented in FPGA-based high-performance signal processing are finite impulse response (FIR) filters and fast Fourier transforms (FFTs).

TI's TMS320C8x, previously known as the Multimedia Video Processor (MVP), integrates up to four parallel-processing DSPs (PPDSPs) and a 32-bit RISC master processor (MP) on a single chip. The C8x ...