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From: wsmith@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: TMS320C30
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Date: 19 Nov 88 00:49:00 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!wsmith    Nov 18 18:49:00 1988


Has anyone thought of building a PC with the TMS320C30 (not to be confused with
the NS32032)?   It is rated at 33 MFLOPS and 16 MIPS (your milage may vary).

The architecture from what I've read so far works by throwing lots of busses 
at the data flow paths and have a bunch of dual ported memory on chip.

Besides the fact that the TMS320C30 is a signal processing computer, are there
reasons this chip hasn't been used?

Bill Smith
wsmith@cs.uiuc.edu
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