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The article states: >"Included in MIPS instruction sets are extensions such as SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) and DSP." I always thought of DSPs as
by bogomipz 8y ago
The article states:
>"Included in MIPS instruction sets are extensions such as SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) and DSP."
I always thought of DSPs as being a specific type of chip i.e a DSP chip. Are Are many DSPs MIPs based then? Is a DSP really just any general purpose CPU whose ISA has optimized DSP instructions then?
- dumael 8y agoMIPS has what's called an Application Specific Extension (ASE) basis for extending a given MIPS core for particular areas. The MIPS DSP ASE extends the base instruction set with certain instructions applicable to various codecs of the day that the ASE was defined for. It's essentially extending a general purpose cpu to efficiently perform DSP like tasks.