[sdiy] AUDIO effects in the code domain/?

[Paul Maddox]

> DSP processors have internal hardware enhancements that make DSP more clock tick efficient.  dsPIC
> is one of them, it has, for example, a MACC (Multiply and ACCumulate) instruction which make DSP
> structures like FIR filters "faster", i.e., more gets done within a clock tick that would be done
> by a regular PIC.

PLUS, some of them, like the motorola (now freescale) 56000 series
have the ability to do parallel moves
so you can do a multiply and copy two sections of memory to two other
sections in the same instruction.... this makes for VERY fast code.

The new 56K chips have filters included in them IIRC.

Terry?

Paul