... of DSP, without the associated design cost † DSPs are multitasking devices A DSP is a general purpose device As process technology improves, two different functions that were performed on two DSPs, ... modems, digital still camera, and solid-state audio players As was mentioned in Section 2.2, the power difference between DSP and ASIC solutions was significantly reduced by designing the DSP for ... generation (1G) The standards deployed in the 1990s were digital Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), FDMA, Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) or Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) These standards enabled...