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Floating point DSP hardware has many advantages for DSP. It simplifies programming, and makes it easier to use high level languages. It also offers greater dynamic range and precision than fixed point devices. But is is worth noting that floating point is not best for all applications (notably, data compression is often better done by a fixed point DSP processor). Our floating point DSP products use the Lucent DSP32C processor which calculates at 25 Mflop (millions of floating point operations per second) or 40 Mflops, depending on the processor clock speed (50 MHz or 80 MHz), or the Texas TMS320C32 processor which calculates at 33 Mflop.
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