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From: carroll@ssc-vax (Jeff Carroll)
Newsgroups: comp.dsp
Subject: Re: TMS32031 - vs - Motorola56001, information requested
Keywords: how do these compare?
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Date: 20 Mar 91 02:45:57 GMT
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In article <1991Mar19.183918.6460@world.std.com> aep@world.std.com (Andrew E Page) writes:
>
>    I'm not sure, but I do not think that the 56K supports the following 
>features that the C30 does:
>
>	a)  parallel instructions
>        b)  serial ports (2 for the C30, 1 for the C31)

a)	the 56000/56001 supports "parallel moves", i.e., the move
	instructions can under  some circumstances be executed in parallel
	with ALU ops.

b)	the 56000/56001 has three reconfigurable I/O ports, two of which
	can be used as serial ports.



-- 
Jeff Carroll
carroll@ssc-vax.boeing.com