DSP: It's about time for the 96002

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From: Eskandar Ensafi
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 18:04

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Why not NeXT? I mean, Ariel has come out with PC boards using the 96001  
"Multimedia" DSP chip from Motorola.
  
For those of you who don't know, the chip is binary-compatible with the 56001  
that NeXT uses and it is called a multimedia chip because, being a 32-bit  
version of the 24-bit 56001, it can process sound and graphics simultaneously.

a 33-MHz 96002 processes 16.5 MIPS and 49 MFLOPS.  The dual 88110 CPUs being  
rumored lately beat this chip in the MIPS, but do they have the MFLOPS?  I  
think it would be a good idea to use it in both 040 and (if ever) 88110  
systems.

What do you think?

Eskandar Ensafi --- esky@marathon.cs.ucla.edu, esky@mayhem.icsl.ucla.edu

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