Feature
Analog Devices
21060 (40 MHz)
Texas Instruments
'C6701 (167 MHz)
Performance (MFLOPS)    
Peak 120 1 GFLOP
Sustained 80 500 to 700 (Spectrum estimate)
Bandwidth: register file to
internal memory
64 bits/cycle 256 bits/cycle
Bandwidth: external memory 240 Mbytes/s 666.7 Mbytes/s
I/O bandwidth: total 560 Mbytes/s ~400 Mbytes/s
Interrupt latency 4 by 25 ns cycles 11 by 6 ns cycles
Core features    
Number of registers 128 32
Extended floating-point support 40-bit extended precision 64-bit double precision
Peripheral features    
Internal memory size 4 Mbit (2 by 2 Mbit) 1 Mbit (2 by 512 kbit)
Program memory structure Configurable
48-bit instructions
16 k by 32
2 k by 256 bit instructions
Data memory structure Configurable:
16-, 32-, or 40-bit
16 k by 32
8/16/32/40/64-bit data
Cache 32 instructions
(if selected)
Entire internal program
memory (if selected)
DMA channels 10 4 + 1 (HPI)
I/O capability    
Primary external data interface 48 bits at 40 MHz 32 bits at 166.7 MHz
Serial ports Two at 40 Mbit/s Two at 83.4 Mbit/s
Other ports 6 by link ports at 40 Mbytes/s Slave host port at clock/4
(41.5 Mbytes/s)
Inherent multiprocessing support Cluster and link ports None