Date of Publication :30th November 2017

Abstract: In this report, we discuss a few issues that are important in a digital signal processor. These include issues like bus architectures that are most optimum for a DSP, parallelism and pipelining, fixed and floating point issues, etc. We then see the basic blocks required in any digital signal processor in section 3. The basic computational blocks include multipliers & accumulators (MACs), arithmetic & logic unit (ALUs) and shifters. Other blocks that are required for the proper control of these are program sequencers, data address generators, IO controllers and most important of all memory. In section 4 some issues related to power dissipation are included using an example of FIR filter realization

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