NEC µPD7720

The NEC μPD7720 is the name of fixed point digital signal processors from NEC (currently Renesas Electronics). Announced in 1980, it became, along with the Texas Instruments TMS32010, one of the most popular DSPs of its day.

Background

In the late 1970s, telephone engineers were attempting to create technology with sufficient performance to enable digital touch-tone dialing.[1] Existing digital signal processing solutions required over a hundred chips and consumed significant amounts of power.[2] Intel responded to this potential market by introducing the Intel 2920, an integrated processor that, while it had both digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters, lacked additional features (such as a hardware multiplier) that would be found in later processors.[1] Announcements for the first "real" DSPs, the NEC μPD7720 and the Bell Labs DSP-1 chip, occurred the following year at the 1980 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits conference.[3] The μPD7720 first became available in 1981[4] and commercially available in late 1982 at a cost of ¥20.000 (around $82 and inflation corrected for 2023 dollars around $304).[5] Beyond their initial use in telephony, these processors found applications in disk drive and graphics controllers, speech synthesis and modems.[6]

Architecture

Detailed descriptions of the μPD7720 architecture are found in Chance (1990),[7] Sweitzer (1984)[8] and Simpson (1984).[9] Briefly, the NEC μPD7720 runs at 4 MHz frequency with 128-word data RAM, 512-word data ROM, and 512-word program memory, which has VLIW-like instruction format, enabling all of ALU operation, address register increment/decrement operation, and move operation in one cycle.

Variants
The successor NEC μPD96050

The NEC μPD77C25, which succeeded the μPD7720, runs at 8 MHz frequency with 256-word data RAM, 1,024-word data ROM, and 2,048-word program memory.

References
  1. Hays, W. Patrick (March 2004). "DSPs: Back to the Future". Queue. 2 (1): 44. doi:10.1145/984458.984485. (subscription required)
  2. Tretter, Steven A. (2008). Communication System Design Using DSP Algorithms. Springer. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-387--74885-6.
  3. Waldner, Jean-Baptsite (2007). Nanocomputers and Swarm Intelligence. Wiley. p. 93. ISBN 978-1-84821-009-7.
  4. Anderson, Alexander John (1994). Foundations of Computer Technology. Chapman & Hall. p. 365. ISBN 0-412-59810-8.
  5. "Milestones:MPD7720DSP, 1980". ETHW. 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
  6. Lee, Edward Ashford; Seshia, Sanjit Arunkumar (2011). Introduction to Embedded Systems: A Cyber-physical Systems Approach. Lee & Seshia. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-557-70857-4.
  7. Chance, R. J. (1990). "Devices Overview". In Jones, N. B.; Watson, J. D. McK. (eds.). Digital Signal Processing: Principles, Devices and Applications. Peter Peregrinus Ltd. pp. 10–12. ISBN 0863412106.
  8. Sweitzer, S. (March 1984). "A low cost FFT chip set". ICASSP '84. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Vol. 9. pp. 371–373. doi:10.1109/ICASSP.1984.1172726.(subscription required)
  9. Simpson, Robert J.; Terrell, Trevor J. (September 1984). "Digital filtering using the NEC μPD7720 signal processor". Microprocessing and Microprogramming. 14 (2): 67–78. doi:10.1016/0165-6074(84)90101-7.(subscription required)
  • Datasheets for the UPD7720A, UPD7720AC and UPD7720AD are available here.
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