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In article <2380@taux01.UUCP> you write:
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>I heard that TI has announced recently a new DSP chip (think its called -
>320C50). Does anyone know what can this beast do ?  Is it any faster than the 
>Motorola DSP96000 ?  Can it do Floating-Point or just Fixed-Point arithmetic ?
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>Gideon Intrater                            gideon@nsc.nsc.com
>National Semiconductor, P.O.Box 3007, Herzlia B 46104, Israel 
>Phone: +972-52-522303,                    Fax: +972-52-558322

The TMS320C50 has been anounced, it is a 35 ns fixed point DSP and an
upgrade to TI's TMS320C2X family.   A quick summary of features is:

	1 level stack on 13 of the CPU registers to allow for a zero
level context switch.

	More Memory

		8 K x 16 on chip program/data RAM
		544 x 16 dual-access data RAM


	Full Duplex serial port

	Interval Timer
	
	Software Wait State Generator

	Parallell input/output

	JTAG IEEE 1149.1 Test bus

According to the information I recieved from TI on this chip the
asembler-linker will be available 4Q 88, Samples in 1Q 90 and full
production later in 1990,  The C compiler will be available sometime
in 1990.

	For more information contact TI, however earlier in the summer
when I requested the data sheet etc. on this chip they sent me a
non-discloser document to sign (I wasn't that interested in the chip
:-) ), so I do not have any further information on this chip other
than what is in the device preview (Doc # SPRT095).


Disclammer: I have no association with TI, the above information was
taken from a TI Preview Bullitin.


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