Re: Vladimir Post 35 about Integer Implementations: WAS: DSP engineer position opening in Vienna / Austria

Ken Asbury wrote:
(snip regarding the CDP1802)

> Not an easy chip to do DSP (whatever that was).

So much so that a new algorithm, the ICT (Integer
Cosine Transform) was invented for it.  Without
hardware multiply, coefficients with fewer '1's
run faster.  The inverse transform is slower, but
can be run on a faster computer on earth.

http://tmo.jpl.nasa.gov/progress_report/42-119/119M.pdf

-- glen