Digital Signal Processing

Name: Ralph Angelo M. Carizo Course and Year: BSCPE-4

History of Digital Signal Processing

In 1976, Richard Wiggins proposed

In 1978, American
the Speak & Spell concept to Paul
Microsystems (AMI) released the S2811. The
Breedlove, Larry Branting ham, and
AMI S2811 "signal processing peripheral", In 1979, Intel released the
Gene Frantz at Texas Instruments'
like many later DSPs, has a hardware 2920 as an "analog signal
Dallas research facility. Two years
multiplier that enables it to do multiply–
later in 1978, they produced the processor". It had an on-chip
accumulate operation in a single instruction.
first Speak & Spell, with the ADC/DAC with an internal
The S2281 was the first integrated
technological centerpiece being signal processor, but it didn't
circuit chip specifically designed as a DSP,
the TMS5100, the industry's first have a hardware multiplier and
and fabricated using VMOS (V-groove MOS),
digital signal processor. It also set was not successful in the
a technology that had previously not been
other milestones, being the first market.
mass-produced. It was designed as a
chip to use linear predictive coding
microprocessor peripheral, for the Motorola
to perform . The chip was made
6800, and it had to be initialized by the host.
possible with
The S2811 was not successful in the market.
a 7 µm PMOS fabrication process.

About five years later, the
second generation of DSPs
began to spread. They had 3
memories for storing two
operands simultaneously and
included hardware to
accelerate tight loops; they
also had an addressing unit
capable of loop-addressing.
Some of them operated on 24-
bit variables and a typical
model only required about
21 ns for a MAC. Members of
this generation were for
example the AT&T DSP16A or
the Motorola 56000.
Another DSP produced by Texas
Instruments (TI),
the TMS32010 presented in 1983,
proved to be an even bigger success.
It was based on the Harvard
architecture, and so had separate
instruction and data memory. It
already had a special instruction set,
with instructions like load-and-
accumulate or multiply-and-
accumulate. It could work on 16-bit
numbers and needed 390 ns for a
multiply–add operation. TI is now the
market leader in general-purpose
DSPs.
The Altamira DX-1 was
another early DSP, utilizing
quad integer pipelines with
delayed branches and
branch prediction.
In 1980, the first stand-alone,
complete DSPs – Nippon Electric
Corporation's NEC
µPD7720 and AT&T's DSP1 – were
presented at the International Solid-
State Circuits Conference '80. Both
processors were inspired by the
research in public switched
telephone
network (PSTN) telecommunication
s. The µPD7720, introduced
for voiceband applications, was one
of the most commercially successful
early DSPs.