DSPs (was: Nuclear Weapons Materials)
Jim Dixon
jdd at aiki.demon.co.uk
Wed Aug 24 12:09:19 PDT 1994
In message <9408241340.AA03320 at snark.imsi.com> perry at imsi.com writes:
>
> I've been wondering recently, by the way, about what advantages doing
> some of this stuff on DSPs might have. DSPs are not magical chips, but
> they are optimized for a few tasks, including, typically, fast integer
> multiplies.
More precisely, fast integer inner products.
> IDEA and modular exponentiation both require lots of fast
> integer multiplies. Would it make sense to use DSPs as co-processors
> to things like Pentiums to speed up these processes?
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Jim Dixon
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