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From: slone@sctc.com (Brent Slone)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Looking for the right processor
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.170402.24639@sctc.com>
Date: 4 Apr 91 17:04:02 GMT
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I have an integer(ordinal) numerical algorithm heavily
using multiplies, shifts and adds.  You could think of
it like an FFT where I need to pump data blocks through
at a very high speed.  The criteria for the processor
is:

General purpose or DSP
Fast 32 or 64 bit ordinal multiply
Multiple functional units
Pipelined architecture
A large on-chip data area, cache or data ram

The processor would only run this algorithm so tasking
or memory management is not a consideration.

So my question is what processor would be a good choice 
for implementation?  I have been looking at the Intel
i80960CA as a possibility but would like a second opinion.

Thanks,
Brent Slone slone@sctc.com