Extreme Levels Of Parallelism Escalate DSP Horsepower

摘要

The ability to rapidly execute DSP algorithms makes possible many of the applications now available in the worlds of multimedia, communications, and industrial electronics. To do that, designers have crafted numerous DSP chips that are optimized and dedicated to executing the key algorithms needed by those applications, including speech or image processing, modem signaling, medical imaging, and echo cancellation. And in many of these applications, the more horsepower you can throw at the problem, the better. Increased processing power could translate into enhanced resolution images, cleaner signals, better compression, or more voice or modem channels per chip.