From: Jim Dixon <jdd@aiki.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 94 12:09:19 PDT
To: perry@imsi.com
Subject: DSPs (was: Nuclear Weapons Materials)
Message-ID: <7609@aiki.demon.co.uk>
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In message <9408241340.AA03320@snark.imsi.com> perry@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