ABSTRACT
Conventional processors are optimized for general-purpose computations. Their speed capabilities cannot cope with the high speed requirements of most signal processing operations. Therefore, special high-speed hardware has been developed to match signal processing needs. Almost all mathematical operations that are employed in signal processing applications are limited to multiplication and addition. Other operations, like logical and memory management tasks, have modest speed requirements. Specially tailored processors for DSP applications naturally aim at real-time processing. Low-level languages like Assembly or higher-level languages such as C or C++ are usuallyused.
