SAWs enable the advent of the signal microprocessor development station

Author

Hunsinger, Bill J.

Author_Institution

Electron. Decisions Inc., Urbana, IL, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

4-7 Dec 1990

Firstpage

225

Abstract

The Signal MicroProcessor (SMP) is a software-controlled programmable processor IC chip for video and RF signals. The SMP has been developed to bring the power of programmable mathematical processing to high-speed analog electronic equipment in cases where the cost and power requirements of the high-speed analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and ultra-high-speed digital processing present a problem. It is enabled by a technology called acoustic charge transport, which is used to provide the buffer memory for analog signals in a platform that can also implement the high-speed arithmetic operations. The SMP performs the function of an ADC, a digital signal processor with 128 multipliers, 128 adders, control circuitry, and a digital-to-analog converter all working with a 360 megasample/s throughput rate

Keywords

band-pass filters; digital signal processing chips; surface acoustic wave filters; video signals; ADC; RF signals; SAW; Signal MicroProcessor; acoustic charge transport; band-pass filter; buffer memory; digital signal processor; digital-to-analog converter; discrete time analog memory; high-speed analog electronic equipment; high-speed arithmetic operations; programmable mathematical processing; signal microprocessor development station; software-controlled programmable processor IC chip; video signals; Analog-digital conversion; Arithmetic; Costs; Digital signal processors; Electronic equipment; Microprocessors; RF signals; Radiofrequency integrated circuits; Sawing machines; Signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultrasonics Symposium, 1990. Proceedings., IEEE 1990

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ULTSYM.1990.171358

Filename

171358