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General-Purpose DSP Processors

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Recently the border between DSP processors and general-purpose processors has been diminishing as general-purpose processors have obtained DSP features to support various multimedia applications. This chapter provides a view to general-purpose DSP processors by considering the characteristics of DSP algorithms and identifying important features in a processor architecture for efficient DSP algorithm implementations. Fixed-point and floating-point data paths are discussed. Memory architectures are considered from parallel access point of view and address computations are shortly discussed.

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This work has been supported by Academy of Finland through funding decision no. 253087.

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Takala, J. (2013). General-Purpose DSP Processors. In: Bhattacharyya, S., Deprettere, E., Leupers, R., Takala, J. (eds) Handbook of Signal Processing Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6859-2_24

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