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Native Signal Processing

Native Signal Processing

The NSP Reference Platform creates a common platform design target for OEMs, peripheral vendors and, most importantly, ISVs. By facilitating the activities of system manufacturers, hardware vendors, and software vendors, Intel Architecture-based systems can deliver the next generation of multimedia and communications-enabled PCs with easy-to-use interactive interfaces, at today's volume price points.

The NSP Reference Platform promotes balanced partitioning of system resources and processing capabilities. Some of the complex signal processing functions that are currently performed on add-in cards can be moved to the Pentium(R) processor. Functions that would not effectively use the Pentium processor's resources can be handled by fixed-function accelerators. This partitioning approach results in lower-cost add-in cards, thereby generating much higher sales volume.

The benefits of the NPS Reference Platform can be categorized into three areas:

The NPS Reference Platform lets systems manufacturers and suppliers take full advantage of the Pentium processor in these three areas. The NSP Reference Platform White Paper provides details about NSP Reference Platform functionality in each of these areas. The paper is available in three formats:

Intel offers a comprehensive set of software developer's kits (SDKs) and driver developer's kits (DDKs) that enable new classes of applications to run with Microsoft's latest Windows* offerings. Each kit will be extensively tested on representative NSP Reference Platform OEM systems and will include installation, help files, and sample applications.

General background information about the NSP program is also available from the IAL Software Developer's Newsletter, in Adobe* Acrobat* format.


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