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From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga,alt.next,rec.music.synth,alt.emusic
Subject: Re: Motorola DSP chip
Keywords: How does it work?
Message-ID: <5054@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 88 19:52:51 GMT
References: <289@aeras.UUCP> <6636@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <6636@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> eacj@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Julian Vrieslander) writes:
>The Motorola 56001 DSP chip used in the Next box is a fixed point RISC
...
>I've heard one estimate saying that at the 44.1 kHz sample rate used
>by CDs, it can do about 200 instructions between samples.

	Actually, give 25Mhz cycles and mostly 1-cycle instruction, it can
do close to 600 operations per 44.1KHz sample.

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