ABSTRACT
Low-power programmable digital signal processors (DSP) can nowadays be found in a broad range of battery-operated consumer devices, such as MP3/CD/DVD players, or in the ubiquitous cellular phone. The trend being in the software implementation of more complex signal processing algorithms, very high-performance programmable DSP microprocessors having both a very high computational power capability and a very low-power consumption will be required in the near future to seamlessly implement such algorithms.
