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In article <N2sPwB1w165w@tfsquad.mn.org> mike_d@tfsquad.mn.org (mike diack) writes:
>Anyone ever heard of a microcontroller&/microprocessor called a
>D77P20D ?. I met a few of these the other day, and a quick glance in
>someone elses IC Master (mine is about 8000 miles away at present) told
>me that it was a DSP optimised chip with a bloody fast multiply - well
>compared to a '51 or 6805/11 anyway. My interest was aroused that these
>could be useful in grotty little audio applications where the more fancy
>(and expensive) DSP units were not needed. They are made by NEC and are
>in a ceramic windowed package.

These are fairly nifty chips, with a rather slick 8-bit DSP design.  They
aren't TMS320's by any means, but they look like they'd be easy to work
with and fine for a lot of simple work.

The bad news is that NEC doesn't want to sell you any.  I managed to get
data out of them only after several hours talking to various people at
the US offices.  They basically told me that none of their distributors
will handle it, and since I only needed a couple hundred, I was small
potatoes and not worth talking to.

NEC is really ghastly to deal with.  But Sanyo is even worse.
--scott