THE TMS320C30 FLOATING-POINT DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR (CONTAINS SCANNED TEXT)

This chapter, reprinted from Proceedings of the IEEE, describes the origin and development of the TMS320 Family of Digital Signal Processors. The topics covered include:

- An overview of the characteristics of digital signal processing

- A history describing how digital signal processing has evolved over the last several decades

- A description of the three generations of the TMS320 family

- Hardware and software tools used in development and support

- How applications use DSP solutions

Support graphics include:

- An example of the building blocks comprising the TMS320 DSP family

- A graph showing the instruction cycles available for signal processing

- A diagram showing a minimal processing system with external data RAM and PROM/EPROM

- TMS320C10, TMS320C25, TMS320C30 functional block diagrams

The chapter concludes with a summary and a lengthy list of

references.

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