A Review of Floating Point Basics & Comparison of Dedicated Processors  Skip Navigation Links.
Collapse 1 Binary Systems1 Binary Systems
1.1 Digital Computers and Digital Systems
1.1.1 Applications and types of microprocessors
Collapse 1.2 Binary Numbers1.2 Binary Numbers
1.2.1 Arithmetic Operations
Collapse 1.2.2 Complements1.2.2 Complements
1.2.2.1 Diminished Radix Complement
1.2.2.2 Radix Complement
1.2.2.3 Subtraction with Complements
1.2.3 Signed Binary Numbers
1.2.4 Arithmetic Addition
1.2.5 Arithmetic Subtraction
1.2.6 Binary Multiplication
1.2.7 Binary Division
1.2.8 Fixed Point (Integers)
1.2.9 Real Numbers - Floating Point
1.2.10 Number Precision
Collapse 2 DSP Review2 DSP Review
2.1 Basics
2.2 Converting Analogue Signals
2.3 Aliasing
2.4 Antialiasing
2.5 Frequency resolution
2.6 Quantization
2.7 Summary
Collapse 3 Introduction to Digital Signal Processors3 Introduction to Digital Signal Processors
3.1 How DSPs are Different from Other Microprocessors
Expand 3.2 Characteristics of DSP processors3.2 Characteristics of DSP processors
Collapse 4 Memory Architectures4 Memory Architectures
Expand 4.1 Features for Reducing Memory Access Requirements4.1 Features for Reducing Memory Access Requirements
4.2 Wait States
4.3 ROM
Expand 4.4 External Memory Interfaces4.4 External Memory Interfaces
Expand 4.5 Multiprocessor Support in External Memory Interfaces4.5 Multiprocessor Support in External Memory Interfaces
Collapse 5 Review of DSP Processors5 Review of DSP Processors
5.1 DSP32C - ADSP21060
5.2 DSP16A
5.3 ADSP2181 - ADSP21060
5.4 DSP56002 – DSP56156 – DSP96002
5.5 TMS320C25 - TMS320C50 - TMS320C30 - TMS320C40
5.6 TMS320C60
Collapse 6 Choosing an Appropriate DSP Processor6 Choosing an Appropriate DSP Processor
6.1 Arithmetic Format
6.2 Data Width
6.3 Speed
6.4 Memory Organization
6.5 Ease of Development
6.6 Multiprocessor Support
6.7 Power Consumption and Management
6.8 Cost
References
APPENDIX A - IEEE Standard for Binary Floating Point Arithmetic
APPENDIX B - IEEE Standard for Radix-Independent Floating Point Arithmetic
APPENDIX C – Calculation of Emax and bias