The architecture of the real-time signal processor

The Real-Time Signal Processor (RSP) is a programmable signal processing architecture that was created to provide a quick and economical way to implement signal processing applications. The objectives that were chosen to meet these goals were that the RSP be easy to program, suitable for LSI implementation, and conveniently connectable into distributed systems. It was also intended that the RSP would be able to capitalize on the Reduced Computational Complexity (RCC) algorithms [1], [2], in order to achieve increased performance. Fabrication of the initial RSP chips was recently announced [3]. In this paper, the basic RSP architecture is given and interesting features of that architecture are highlighted.