Re: The integral type 'byte' (was Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?)

On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:03:10 +0100
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:

I used it for the implementation of a channel encoding system, a
typical "signal processing" application; it was great. Imagining
I would have to use any other processor I already knew these days
(65xx, 68k, x86)... - that would have been really annoying.
 

 
There's no doubt that the TMS320 devices can be used to do many types
of DSP-style operations very efficiently.  That's not the point -
that does not stop it from being horrible to work with.  (It is also
fair to characterise it as an "interesting" architecture - that is
also not at odds with being horrible to use.)
 

C24->C28 is a side branch in a family of TI's fixed-point DSPs.
The main trunk is TMS32010->20->21->C25->C50->C54-C55 (a.k.a. C5000).
C24 and especially C28 got more of microcontroller features (and bigger
address space in the latter) at cost of losing some of signal
processing oriented features.