Engineering:FX8010

The FX8010, is a DSP architecture, designed for realtime audio effects, designed by E-mu, around their E-mu 10K1 chip. One key feature of the architecture, is not providing any branching instructions, but rather running the whole program in a sample locked constant loop, i.e. a constant number of instructions is executed per sample. Instructions are given conditional execution flag akin to some RISC processors (notably the ARM), thus providing a constant runtime.

External links

• kxProject documentation page - Some documentation available here
• Steve Hoge (1998-09-25). "FX8010 - A DSP Chip Architecture for Audio Effects" (ps (gz)). emu.com. pp. 1–4. http://alsa.cybermirror.org/manuals/creative/HOG63.PS.gz. "FX8010 is a DSP chip architecture specifically designed for time-domain 3D audio and effects processing." 
• Thomas C. Savell (1999). "THE EMU10K1 DIGITAL AUDIO PROCESSOR". IEEE. pp. 1–9. http://alsa.cybermirror.org/manuals/creative/m2049.pdf.