Performance evaluation of a single-chip digital signal processor based multimedia system using the Abingdon Cross benchmark

Texas Instruments' new single-chip multiprocessor, TMS320C80, is a powerful programmable digital signal processor with many unique features optimized for multimedia, image processing and computer graphics applications, The performance of a TMS320C80-based multimedia system for image processing and computer vision tasks is evaluated using the Abingdon Cross benchmark. The result shows that the TMS320C80-based system outperforms most of 1980s specialized parallel image computers at a fraction of the system cost. (C) 1996 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.