Definition: C8x

A family of RISC-based digital signal processing (DSP) chips from TI designed for multimedia applications such as videoconferencing. The chips are designed with a master processor, floating point unit, video controller and multiple parallel DSP processors with a crossbar switch that lets them access 50KB of built-in static RAM. The C80 (TMS320C80) contains four and the C82 (TMS320C82) chip contains two DSP processors.