What is a DSP?

What is it that differentiates a Digital Signal Processor from the processor in your laptop? What are DSP processors used for? Read on to find more about DSP’s.

Any task that a processor does can be broken down into two operations- Data movement or data arithmetics. Not all processors excel in both the fields equally. For example, a processor such as Intel Pentium is designed by keeping in mind data movement operations. It is meant for word processing and such applications. On the other hand, a DSP is built for faster data computation rather than data movement.