Accession Number:

AD0745950

Title:

Design Study of the Advanced Signal Processor

Descriptive Note:

Technical note

Corporate Author:

MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH LEXINGTON LINCOLN LAB

Personal Author(s):

• Blankenship, Peter E.
• Gold, Bernard
• McHugh, Paul G.
• Weinstein, Clifford J.

Report Date:

1972-04-22

Pagination or Media Count:

89.0

Abstract:

A design study has been carried out for a general-purpose signal processing computer which incorporates arithmetic parallelism in a microprocessor structure. The study indicates that the processor Advanced Signal Processor, ASP would be faster, smaller, simpler, and less costly than its predecessor, the Fast Digital Processor FDP. In addition, the ASP would have a more sophisticated in-out system than the FDP. These gains are achievable partially because of newly available fast hardware and partially due to the architecture of the ASP.

Descriptors:

• *DATA PROCESSING
• REAL TIME
• COMPUTERS
• COMPUTER LOGIC
• COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
• LOGIC CIRCUITS
• SPEECH
• RADAR SIGNALS
• SONAR SIGNALS
• DIGITAL COMPUTERS
• INSTRUCTION MANUALS
• SPECTRUM ANALYZERS
• SHIFT REGISTERS

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software
• Computer Hardware

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE