DSP處理器的選擇 Choosing a DSP Processor

DSP processors are microprocessors designed to perform
digital signal processing—the mathematical manipulation
of digitally represented signals. Digital signal
processing is one of the core technologies in rapidly
growing application areas such as wireless communications,
audio and video processing, and industrial control.
Along with the rising popularity of DSP applications, the
variety of DSP-capable processors has expanded greatly
since the introduction of the first commercially successful
DSP chips in the early 1980s. Market research firm
Forward Concepts projects that sales of DSP processors
will total U.S. $6.2 billion in 2000, a growth of 40 percent
over 1999. With semiconductor manufacturers vying
for bigger shares of this booming market, designers’
choices will broaden even further in the next few years.