en.unionpedia.org

Digital signal processor, the Glossary

A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor chip, with its architecture optimized for the operational needs of digital signal processing.^[1]

113 relations: Academic Press, Address generation unit, Addressing mode, Airbus Defence and Space, Algorithm, Analog Devices, Analog signal, Arithmetic logic unit, ARM architecture family, ARM Cortex-A8, Artificial intelligence, ASOCS, Assembly language, AT&T Corporation, AT&T DSP1, Audio signal processing, Beyond Frontiers, Binary multiplier, Blackfin, Ceva (semiconductor company), China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Circular buffer, Communications satellite, Computer History Museum, Consumer electronics, Context switch, Convolution, CRC Press, CSR plc, Data storage, Datapath, Delay slot, Digital image processing, Digital signal controller, Digital signal processing, Direct memory access, Dot product, EDN (magazine), Engineering and Technology History Wiki, Fast Fourier transform, Field-programmable gate array, Finite impulse response, Fixed-point arithmetic, Floating-point arithmetic, FLOPS, Freescale Semiconductor, Function (computer programming), Google Books, Graphics processing unit, Hardware acceleration, ... Expand index (63 more) »
Computer engineering
Coprocessors
Digital signal processors
Hardware acceleration

Academic Press

Academic Press (AP) is an academic book publisher founded in 1941.

See Digital signal processor and Academic Press

The address generation unit (AGU), sometimes also called address computation unit (ACU), is an execution unit inside central processing units (CPUs) that calculates addresses used by the CPU to access main memory.

See Digital signal processor and Address generation unit

Addressing mode

Addressing modes are an aspect of the instruction set architecture in most central processing unit (CPU) designs.

See Digital signal processor and Addressing mode

Airbus Defence and Space

Airbus Defence and Space is a division of Airbus SE.

See Digital signal processor and Airbus Defence and Space

Algorithm

In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is a finite sequence of mathematically rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation.

See Digital signal processor and Algorithm

Analog Devices

Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), also known simply as Analog, is an American multinational semiconductor company specializing in data conversion, signal processing, and power management technology, headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts.

See Digital signal processor and Analog Devices

Analog signal

An analog signal is any continuous-time signal representing some other quantity, i.e., analogous to another quantity.

See Digital signal processor and Analog signal

Arithmetic logic unit

In computing, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) is a combinational digital circuit that performs arithmetic and bitwise operations on integer binary numbers.

See Digital signal processor and Arithmetic logic unit

ARM architecture family

ARM (stylised in lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of RISC instruction set architectures (ISAs) for computer processors.

See Digital signal processor and ARM architecture family

ARM Cortex-A8

The ARM Cortex-A8 is a 32-bit processor core licensed by ARM Holdings implementing the ARMv7-A architecture.

See Digital signal processor and ARM Cortex-A8

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.

See Digital signal processor and Artificial intelligence

ASOCS

ASOCS Ltd.

See Digital signal processor and ASOCS

Assembly language

In computer programming, assembly language (alternatively assembler language or symbolic machine code), often referred to simply as assembly and commonly abbreviated as ASM or asm, is any low-level programming language with a very strong correspondence between the instructions in the language and the architecture's machine code instructions.

See Digital signal processor and Assembly language

AT&T Corporation

AT&T Corporation, commonly referred to as AT&T, an abbreviation for its former name, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was an American telecommunications company that provided voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government agencies.

See Digital signal processor and AT&T Corporation

AT&T DSP1

The AT&T DSP1 was a pioneering digital signal processor (DSP) created by Bell Labs. Digital signal processor and AT&T DSP1 are digital signal processors.

See Digital signal processor and AT&T DSP1

Audio signal processing

Audio signal processing is a subfield of signal processing that is concerned with the electronic manipulation of audio signals.

See Digital signal processor and Audio signal processing

Beyond Frontiers

Beyond Frontiers is the third book in a series from satellite owner and operator SES describing the past, current and future of the development of satellite broadcasting as well as the current business of the company and its strategy.

See Digital signal processor and Beyond Frontiers

Binary multiplier

A binary multiplier is an electronic circuit used in digital electronics, such as a computer, to multiply two binary numbers.

See Digital signal processor and Binary multiplier

Blackfin

The Blackfin is a family of 16-/32-bit microprocessors developed, manufactured and marketed by Analog Devices. Digital signal processor and Blackfin are digital signal processors.

See Digital signal processor and Blackfin

Ceva (semiconductor company)

Ceva Inc. is a publicly traded semiconductor intellectual property (IP) company, headquartered in Rockville, Maryland and specializes in digital signal processor (DSP) technology.

See Digital signal processor and Ceva (semiconductor company)

China Electronics Technology Group Corporation

China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC; labels) is a Chinese state-owned company established in 2002.

See Digital signal processor and China Electronics Technology Group Corporation

Circular buffer

In computer science, a circular buffer, circular queue, cyclic buffer or ring buffer is a data structure that uses a single, fixed-size buffer as if it were connected end-to-end.

See Digital signal processor and Circular buffer

Communications satellite

A communications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunication signals via a transponder; it creates a communication channel between a source transmitter and a receiver at different locations on Earth.

See Digital signal processor and Communications satellite

Computer History Museum

The Computer History Museum (CHM) is a museum of computer history, located in Mountain View, California.

See Digital signal processor and Computer History Museum

Consumer electronics

Consumer electronics or home electronics are electronic (analog or digital) equipment intended for everyday use, typically in private homes.

See Digital signal processor and Consumer electronics

Context switch

In computing, a context switch is the process of storing the state of a process or thread, so that it can be restored and resume execution at a later point, and then restoring a different, previously saved, state.

See Digital signal processor and Context switch

Convolution

In mathematics (in particular, functional analysis), convolution is a mathematical operation on two functions (f and g) that produces a third function (f*g).

See Digital signal processor and Convolution

CRC Press

The CRC Press, LLC is an American publishing group that specializes in producing technical books.

See Digital signal processor and CRC Press

CSR plc

CSR plc (formerly Cambridge Silicon Radio) was a multinational fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

See Digital signal processor and CSR plc

Data storage

Data storage is the recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium.

See Digital signal processor and Data storage

Datapath

A data path is a collection of functional units such as arithmetic logic units (ALUs) or multipliers that perform data processing operations, registers, and buses.

See Digital signal processor and Datapath

Delay slot

In computer architecture, a delay slot is an instruction slot being executed without the effects of a preceding instruction.

See Digital signal processor and Delay slot

Digital image processing

Digital image processing is the use of a digital computer to process digital images through an algorithm.

See Digital signal processor and Digital image processing

Digital signal controller

A digital signal controller (DSC) is a hybrid of microcontrollers and digital signal processors (DSPs). Digital signal processor and digital signal controller are digital signal processing, digital signal processors and integrated circuits.

See Digital signal processor and Digital signal controller

Digital signal processing

Digital signal processing (DSP) is the use of digital processing, such as by computers or more specialized digital signal processors, to perform a wide variety of signal processing operations. Digital signal processor and digital signal processing are computer engineering.

See Digital signal processor and Digital signal processing

Direct memory access

Direct memory access (DMA) is a feature of computer systems that allows certain hardware subsystems to access main system memory independently of the central processing unit (CPU). Digital signal processor and Direct memory access are hardware acceleration.

See Digital signal processor and Direct memory access

Dot product

In mathematics, the dot product or scalar productThe term scalar product means literally "product with a scalar as a result".

See Digital signal processor and Dot product

EDN (magazine)

EDN is an electronics industry website and formerly a magazine owned by AspenCore Media, an Arrow Electronics company.

See Digital signal processor and EDN (magazine)

Engineering and Technology History Wiki

The Engineering and Technology History Wiki (ETHW) is a MediaWiki-based website dedicated to the history of technology.

See Digital signal processor and Engineering and Technology History Wiki

Fast Fourier transform

A fast Fourier transform (FFT) is an algorithm that computes the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) of a sequence, or its inverse (IDFT). Digital signal processor and fast Fourier transform are digital signal processing.

See Digital signal processor and Fast Fourier transform

Field-programmable gate array

A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is a type of configurable integrated circuit that can be repeatedly programmed after manufacturing. Digital signal processor and field-programmable gate array are hardware acceleration and integrated circuits.

See Digital signal processor and Field-programmable gate array

Finite impulse response

In signal processing, a finite impulse response (FIR) filter is a filter whose impulse response (or response to any finite length input) is of finite duration, because it settles to zero in finite time. Digital signal processor and finite impulse response are digital signal processing.

See Digital signal processor and Finite impulse response

Fixed-point arithmetic

In computing, fixed-point is a method of representing fractional (non-integer) numbers by storing a fixed number of digits of their fractional part.

See Digital signal processor and Fixed-point arithmetic

Floating-point arithmetic

In computing, floating-point arithmetic (FP) is arithmetic that represents subsets of real numbers using an integer with a fixed precision, called the significand, scaled by an integer exponent of a fixed base.

See Digital signal processor and Floating-point arithmetic

FLOPS

Floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance in computing, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations.

See Digital signal processor and FLOPS

Freescale Semiconductor

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. was an American semiconductor manufacturer.

See Digital signal processor and Freescale Semiconductor

Function (computer programming)

In computer programming, a function, procedure, method, subroutine, routine, or subprogram is a callable unit of software logic that has a well-defined interface and behavior and can be invoked multiple times.

See Digital signal processor and Function (computer programming)

Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

See Digital signal processor and Google Books

Graphics processing unit

A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit initially designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being present either as a discrete video card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles. Digital signal processor and graphics processing unit are hardware acceleration.

See Digital signal processor and Graphics processing unit

Hardware acceleration

Hardware acceleration is the use of computer hardware designed to perform specific functions more efficiently when compared to software running on a general-purpose central processing unit (CPU). Digital signal processor and hardware acceleration are Coprocessors.

See Digital signal processor and Hardware acceleration

Harvard architecture

The Harvard architecture is a computer architecture with separate storage and signal pathways for instructions and data.

See Digital signal processor and Harvard architecture

High-definition television

High-definition television (HDTV) describes a television or video system which provides a substantially higher image resolution than the previous generation of technologies.

See Digital signal processor and High-definition television

Horner's method

In mathematics and computer science, Horner's method (or Horner's scheme) is an algorithm for polynomial evaluation.

See Digital signal processor and Horner's method

Instructions per second

Instructions per second (IPS) is a measure of a computer's processor speed.

See Digital signal processor and Instructions per second

Integrated circuit

An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip, computer chip, or simply chip, is a small electronic device made up of multiple interconnected electronic components such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors. Digital signal processor and integrated circuit are integrated circuits.

See Digital signal processor and Integrated circuit

Intel

Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware.

See Digital signal processor and Intel

International Solid-State Circuits Conference

International Solid-State Circuits Conference is a global forum for presentation of advances in solid-state circuits and Systems-on-a-Chip.

See Digital signal processor and International Solid-State Circuits Conference

Latency (engineering)

Latency, from a general point of view, is a time delay between the cause and the effect of some physical change in the system being observed.

See Digital signal processor and Latency (engineering)

Matrix (mathematics)

In mathematics, a matrix (matrices) is a rectangular array or table of numbers, symbols, or expressions, with elements or entries arranged in rows and columns, which is used to represent a mathematical object or property of such an object.

See Digital signal processor and Matrix (mathematics)

MDSP

MDSP is a multiprocessor DSP family from Cradle Technologies. Digital signal processor and MDSP are digital signal processors.

See Digital signal processor and MDSP

Memory architecture

Memory architecture describes the methods used to implement electronic computer data storage in a manner that is a combination of the fastest, most reliable, most durable, and least expensive way to store and retrieve information.

See Digital signal processor and Memory architecture

Memory management unit

A memory management unit (MMU), sometimes called paged memory management unit (PMMU), is a computer hardware unit that examines all memory references on the memory bus, translating these requests, known as virtual memory addresses, into physical addresses in main memory.

See Digital signal processor and Memory management unit

Microchip Technology

Microchip Technology Incorporated is a publicly listed American corporation that manufactures microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog, and Flash-IP integrated circuits.

See Digital signal processor and Microchip Technology

Microcontroller

A microcontroller (MC, UC, or μC) or microcontroller unit (MCU) is a small computer on a single integrated circuit.

See Digital signal processor and Microcontroller

Microprocessor

A microprocessor is a computer processor for which the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit (IC), or a small number of ICs.

See Digital signal processor and Microprocessor

Mobile phone

A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a fixed-location phone (landline phone).

See Digital signal processor and Mobile phone

Modular arithmetic

In mathematics, modular arithmetic is a system of arithmetic for integers, where numbers "wrap around" when reaching a certain value, called the modulus.

See Digital signal processor and Modular arithmetic

MOSFET

W and controlling a load of over 2000 W. A matchstick is pictured for scale. In electronics, the metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, or MOS FET) is a type of field-effect transistor (FET), most commonly fabricated by the controlled oxidation of silicon.

See Digital signal processor and MOSFET

Motorola 56000

The Motorola DSP56000 (also known as 56K) is a family of digital signal processor (DSP) chips produced by Motorola Semiconductor (later Freescale Semiconductor then NXP) starting in 1986 with later models are still being produced in the 2020s. Digital signal processor and Motorola 56000 are digital signal processors.

See Digital signal processor and Motorola 56000

Motorola 6800

The 6800 ("sixty-eight hundred") is an 8-bit microprocessor designed and first manufactured by Motorola in 1974.

See Digital signal processor and Motorola 6800

Multiply–accumulate operation

In computing, especially digital signal processing, the multiply–accumulate (MAC) or multiply-add (MAD) operation is a common step that computes the product of two numbers and adds that product to an accumulator. Digital signal processor and multiply–accumulate operation are digital signal processing.

See Digital signal processor and Multiply–accumulate operation

NEC

is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered at the NEC Supertower in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

See Digital signal processor and NEC

NEC μPD7720

The NEC μPD7720 is the name of fixed point digital signal processors from NEC (currently Renesas Electronics). Digital signal processor and NEC μPD7720 are digital signal processors.

See Digital signal processor and NEC μPD7720

Nucleus RTOS

Nucleus RTOS is a real-time operating system (RTOS) produced by the Embedded Software Division of Mentor Graphics, a Siemens Business, supporting 32- and 64-bit embedded system platforms.

See Digital signal processor and Nucleus RTOS

NXP Semiconductors

NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXP) is a Dutch semiconductor designer and manufacturer with headquarters in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

See Digital signal processor and NXP Semiconductors

OMAP

OMAP (Open Multimedia Applications Platform) is a family of image/video processors that was developed by Texas Instruments. Digital signal processor and OMAP are digital signal processors.

See Digital signal processor and OMAP

Onsemi

ON Semiconductor Corporation (stylized and doing business as onsemi) is an American semiconductor supplier company, based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

See Digital signal processor and Onsemi

OpenCL

OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms consisting of central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), digital signal processors (DSPs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and other processors or hardware accelerators.

See Digital signal processor and OpenCL

Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.

See Digital signal processor and Operating system

Pipeline (computing)

In computing, a pipeline, also known as a data pipeline, is a set of data processing elements connected in series, where the output of one element is the input of the next one.

See Digital signal processor and Pipeline (computing)

PMOS logic

PMOS or pMOS logic (from p-channel metal–oxide–semiconductor) is a family of digital circuits based on p-channel, enhancement mode metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs).

See Digital signal processor and PMOS logic

Process (computing)

In computing, a process is the instance of a computer program that is being executed by one or many threads.

See Digital signal processor and Process (computing)

Public switched telephone network

The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the aggregate of the world's telephone networks that are operated by national, regional, or local telephony operators.

See Digital signal processor and Public switched telephone network

Radar

Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site.

See Digital signal processor and Radar

Saturation arithmetic

Saturation arithmetic is a version of arithmetic in which all operations, such as addition and multiplication, are limited to a fixed range between a minimum and maximum value.

See Digital signal processor and Saturation arithmetic

Semiconductor device fabrication

Semiconductor device fabrication is the process used to manufacture semiconductor devices, typically integrated circuits (ICs) such as computer processors, microcontrollers, and memory chips (such as NAND flash and DRAM).

See Digital signal processor and Semiconductor device fabrication

SES (company)

SES S.A., trading as SES is a Luxembourgish satellite telecommunications network provider supplying video and data connectivity worldwide to broadcasters, content and internet service providers, mobile and fixed network operators, governments and institutions.

See Digital signal processor and SES (company)

Single instruction, multiple data

Single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) is a type of parallel processing in Flynn's taxonomy. Digital signal processor and Single instruction, multiple data are digital signal processing.

See Digital signal processor and Single instruction, multiple data

Software-defined radio

Software-defined radio (SDR) is a radio communication system where components that conventionally have been implemented in analog hardware (e.g. mixers, filters, amplifiers, modulators/demodulators, detectors, etc.) are instead implemented by means of software on a computer or embedded system.

See Digital signal processor and Software-defined radio

Sonar

Sonar (sound navigation and ranging or sonic navigation and ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, measure distances (ranging), communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels.

See Digital signal processor and Sonar

Sound card

A sound card (also known as an audio card) is an internal expansion card that provides input and output of audio signals to and from a computer under the control of computer programs. Digital signal processor and sound card are hardware acceleration.

See Digital signal processor and Sound card

Speak & Spell (toy)

The Speak & Spell line is a series of electronic hand-held.

See Digital signal processor and Speak & Spell (toy)

Speech recognition

Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers. Digital signal processor and Speech recognition are digital signal processing.

See Digital signal processor and Speech recognition

Speech synthesis

Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech.

See Digital signal processor and Speech synthesis

Super Harvard Architecture Single-Chip Computer

The Super Harvard Architecture Single-Chip Computer (SHARC) is a high performance floating-point and fixed-point DSP from Analog Devices. Digital signal processor and Super Harvard Architecture Single-Chip Computer are digital signal processors.

See Digital signal processor and Super Harvard Architecture Single-Chip Computer

System on a chip

A system on a chip or system-on-chip (SoC; pl. SoCs) is an integrated circuit that integrates most or all components of a computer or other electronic system. Digital signal processor and system on a chip are computer engineering, hardware acceleration and integrated circuits.

See Digital signal processor and System on a chip

Telecommunications

Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information with an immediacy comparable to face-to-face communication.

See Digital signal processor and Telecommunications

Telecommunications link

In a telecommunications network, a link is a communication channel that connects two or more devices for the purpose of data transmission.

See Digital signal processor and Telecommunications link

Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

See Digital signal processor and Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments LPC Speech Chips

The Texas Instruments LPC Speech Chips are a series of speech synthesizer digital signal processor integrated circuits created by Texas Instruments beginning in 1978.

See Digital signal processor and Texas Instruments LPC Speech Chips

TMS320

TMS320 is a blanket name for a series of digital signal processors (DSPs) from Texas Instruments. Digital signal processor and TMS320 are digital signal processors.

See Digital signal processor and TMS320

TriMedia is a family of very long instruction word media processors from NXP Semiconductors (formerly Philips Semiconductors). Digital signal processor and TriMedia (mediaprocessor) are digital signal processors.

See Digital signal processor and TriMedia (mediaprocessor)

Very long instruction word

Very long instruction word (VLIW) refers to instruction set architectures that are designed to exploit instruction-level parallelism (ILP). Digital signal processor and Very long instruction word are digital signal processing.

See Digital signal processor and Very long instruction word

Virtual memory

In computing, virtual memory, or virtual storage, is a memory management technique that provides an "idealized abstraction of the storage resources that are actually available on a given machine" which "creates the illusion to users of a very large (main) memory".

See Digital signal processor and Virtual memory

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signal_processor

Also known as DSP Chip, Digital signal processor DSP, Digital signal processors, Digital signals processor, History of digital signal processing.

, Harvard architecture, High-definition television, Horner's method, Instructions per second, Integrated circuit, Intel, International Solid-State Circuits Conference, Latency (engineering), Matrix (mathematics), MDSP, Memory architecture, Memory management unit, Microchip Technology, Microcontroller, Microprocessor, Mobile phone, Modular arithmetic, MOSFET, Motorola 56000, Motorola 6800, Multiply–accumulate operation, NEC, NEC μPD7720, Nucleus RTOS, NXP Semiconductors, OMAP, Onsemi, OpenCL, Operating system, Pipeline (computing), PMOS logic, Process (computing), Public switched telephone network, Radar, Saturation arithmetic, Semiconductor device fabrication, SES (company), Single instruction, multiple data, Software-defined radio, Sonar, Sound card, Speak & Spell (toy), Speech recognition, Speech synthesis, Super Harvard Architecture Single-Chip Computer, System on a chip, Telecommunications, Telecommunications link, Texas Instruments, Texas Instruments LPC Speech Chips, TMS320, TriMedia (mediaprocessor), Very long instruction word, Virtual memory, Vision processing unit, VMOS, Voice frequency, Von Neumann architecture, X86, Xinhua News Agency, XMOS, Zero-overhead looping, 10 µm process.

Digital signal processor, the Glossary

Table of Contents

See also

Computer engineering

Coprocessors

Digital signal processors

Hardware acceleration

References