Cornell University Signal Processor (CUSP): A VLSI High-Speed DSP CMOS Chip Exceeding VHSIC Phase I Performance

This paper presents the design and fabrication of the Cornell University Signal Processor (CUSP), which is a VLSI high-speed Digital Signal Processing (DSP) chip with performance exceeding the current Very High Speed Integrated Circuits (VHSIC) Phase I requirements. The current version of the CUSP to be described in this paper is a high-performance bulk CMOS processor which has been custom designed to efficiently compute a number of digital signal processing algorithms based on the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT).