>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kai> On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 09:53:07AM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
Kai> [snip]
>> I've liked the Alpha ever since I saw the first drafts of the
>> architecture manual. It's an impressively clean design and has
>> excellent performance. There's been plenty of work done on it
>> showing how well it can perform jobs traditionally given to DSPs.
>>
>> The one drawback is that Alpha platforms tend to be expensive.
>> Compaq has made noises about fixing this (but then again DEC made
>> those noises N times in the past, each time without real success.)
>> For my own (amateur) purposes right now, I'd love an Alpha but
>> probably won't want to spend the money; a tempting alternative is
>> the StrongARM.
Kai> I agree with everything you said but StrongARM lacks of floating
Kai> point. The new ARM10 has a *very* powerful floating
Kai> extenstion. I think this can be considered as an alternative to
Kai> Alpha.
I haven't seen the ARM10 yet -- are implementations of it out?
In any case, there's lots of DSP that can be done without floating
point. As John von Neumann pointed out, if you understand the problem
you can scale your data. Especially given that the project I have in
mind involves back end DSP along with front end DSP ASICs that are all
fixed point.
paul
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