Talk:Digital signal processor
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First implementations of DSP chips was likely military applications, specifically, radar signal processing for fire control radars on USAF fighter jets. Range data was processed to provide targeting information to air-to-air missiles.
"Was likely"? Can you provide sources for this? Note that radar range data can be extracted with analogue electronics (sample-and-hold, boxcars etd), it is hard to see what processing would require a DSP. Passive hydrophone data processing, on the other hand, requiers DSPs for real time beamforming and specrum analysis, seems more credible as an early military application. A submarine or sea going vessel has less of the space, power and cooling constraints found in fighter jet.
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[edit] Erroneous information regarding AMI
According to Wikipedia Article on AMI and AMI Webite, the company was founded in 1985. DSP article states AMI introduced a DSP chip in 1979. The AMI that made DSP chip was not American Megatrends Inc (BIOS maker), but a company named American Microsystems Inc. The Link should be fixed —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jamevay (talk • contribs) 16:28:00, August 19, 2007 (UTC).
[edit] possible POV (removed from article page)
In 1999, Improv Systems introduced the Jazz DSP, the worlds first fully configurable VLIW DSP architecture targeting the embedded DSP market. Being a VLIW processor, the Jazz DSP provides high performance through parallel execution of operations.
--R.Koot 20:41, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Possibly erroneous link
There is a link to Sticky bit, which I do not believe is the intended reference. Either the link should be fixed, or the relationship should be clarified in the surrounding text.
[edit] Circular Logic
I think this "circular logic" definition needs to be re-written: "A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor designed specifically for digital signal processing, generally in real-time computing." This is akin to "A lock is a specialized mechanical device designed specifcially for locking..."
Suggest something like this: A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor designed specifically for altering electrical signals using digital algortihms, generally in real-time computing.
12.38.109.180 20:54, 1 May 2007 (UTC)Chuck McGregor Senior Technologist, Eastern Acoustic Works
[edit] Special loopjkking hardware
I was confused by this strange word. I suspect it is a typo, but in the rest of this paragraph, the term "looping hardware" is being repeated several times. --Lazer erazer 18:58, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
