Abstract Application such as data communications and signal processing require extensive processing power, but when the DSP processing power is not sufficient, the only alternatives have been to add multiple DSP processors or use custom gate arrays. Multiple processor solutions are expensive, require many components, consume too much power and the solution does not always provide the performance needed to differentiate products. Custom gate array solutions deliver the performance but sacrifice...

Abstract Todays, [sic] expanded demand for digital signal processors (DSPs) require them to perform at higher and higher data rates. Many of the existing commercial available general purpose DSPs with their generic mulitply and add structure do not adequately meet this high data rate signal processing requirement. However, recent advances in higher density and faster field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have shown that, as configurable digital signal processing...