The RISC challenge in signal processing

Telecommunication and multimedia are the current buzzwords in the IT domain. New services and technologies are altering the way we live and work in a way not seen since the first computer revolution. New consumer products are being launched onto the market offering, for example, interactivity and added services in the telecommunication market. A new generation of microprocessors which increasingly combines the formerly separate worlds of general purpose processing and digital signal processing constitutes the main building block for these emerging products. The hyperstone E1-32 RISC/DSP processor, a key technology in the Esprit/OMI program, is one such member of this new generation. Based on a new concept this microprocessor combines the controller and DSP world in a single architecture and targets the low-cost but high-performance market