Re: DSP

[taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <2brien$c41@cnn.sim.es.com>, Ken Poppleton writes...
> 
> The DSP processor board will have a Motorola DSP56002 40Mhz processor
                                               ^^^^^^^^
    Isn't this the expensive 32-bit model?  I thought you had decided to
use the 24-bit 56001 to keep costs down?

> For those who want to use the DSP as a fast math coprocessor, it is
> very good for integer math but is about 8 times slower than the 68882
> floating point coprocessors at doing floating point math.

    Can you integrate a 68882 socket in the design, or as an add-on
module where the FP operations could be re-routed?  Or is that way too
expensive?
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