DSP16000: a high performance, low-power dual-MAC DSP core for communications applications

We present Lucent Technologies' first dual-MAC DSP core. The 16-bit, fixed-point device features a datapath with two 16/spl times/16-bit multipliers and dual 40-bit adders that can all operate in one clock cycle to support compute-intensive DSP algorithms. In addition, the device includes special hardware to support all aspects of key communications applications such as wireless terminals, wireless infrastructure, and multichannel modems. The architecture offers a solution for these applications that balances performance, cost and power dissipation.