AT&T joins cellular race. (debuts DSP1610 digital signal processor chip)

EDN, May, 1991 by Vaughan, Jack

TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA--AT&T this week brought another "cellular specific" IC to digital-signal-processing. The 16-bit DSP1610 processor executes 40 million instructions per second (MIPS) and processes key decoding algorithms more efficiently than its predecessors, according to the company.

A critical architectural addition is a new bit-manipulation unit. The Allentown, PA-based division of the company was among the first to target the cellular-specific DSP chip segment, and is demonstrating the processor and its DSP1610 base station companion IC here at the IEEE's International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Both chips have cycle times of 25 nsec. One of the strongest selling points of digital signal processing...

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