>"Included in MIPS instruction sets are extensions such as SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) and DSP."
I always thought of DSPs as being a specific type of chip i.e a DSP chip. Are Are many DSPs MIPs based then? Is a DSP really just any general purpose CPU whose ISA has optimized DSP instructions then?
>"Included in MIPS instruction sets are extensions such as SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) and DSP."
I always thought of DSPs as being a specific type of chip i.e a DSP chip. Are Are many DSPs MIPs based then? Is a DSP really just any general purpose CPU whose ISA has optimized DSP instructions then?