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Digital signal processors (DSP) are special microprocessors designed for digital signal processing, usually in real-time. DSPs can also be used to perform general-purpose computations; however, they are not optimized for this function. Instead, DSPs use an instruction set architecture (ISA) that is optimized for rapid signal processing. Important ISA features include deep pipelining to enhance microprocessor performance and the ability to act as a direct memory access device (DMA) for the host environment. Digital signal processors also use Harvard architecture with separate program and data memory. In addition, DSPs use saturation arithmetic so that overflow operations accumulate at the maximum or minimum values that the register can hold instead of wrapping around. With DSPs, the maximum remains the maximum. By contrast, with many general-purpose CPUs, the sum of the maximum plus one equals the minimum. 


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