ABSTRACT
The story goes like this. In 1982, when Texas Instruments’ (TI) engineers came up with their first generalpurpose chip for DSP applications, they did not know how to call it. Terms like analog microprocessor or signal microprocessor sounded cumbersome for the user. Therefore, an engineer said, “why don’t we confuse the chip and its application? In other words why don’t we use the term DSP (digital signal processing) to describe our chip?” Hence, the DSP (digital signal processor) was born. Unfortunately, this still brings confusion 20 years later.
