On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 03:56:04PM +0100, D Lloyd wrote:
>
> On a separate issue, I have heard stories about people using DSPs as
> micros, effectively. Using the core to provide number crunching while also
> implementing some communications capability. Has anyone any experience with
> this? It would be nice, for certain applications to get rid of the
> micro/DSP combo...certainly on the basis of cost. Is this possible/old
> hat/a stupid question?
>

The Motorola DSP56k is a nice DSP processor which may relatively easily
work as a standard uC - a lot of peripherals and very good architecture and
command set. Additionally you may use eg. freely available Forth language
( ftp://ftp.forth.org/pub/Forth/Compilers/cross/eForth/56k2e4th.zip )
to make the programming easier...

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