This product has been marked as an "End Of Life Buy" and is not recommended for NEW designs.
Motorola developed the DSP56012 as a high-performance programmable digital signal processor
(DSP) for digital versatile disc (DVD), high-definition television (HDTV), and advanced set-top
audio decoding. The DSP56012 is optimized with audio-specific peripherals and customized
memory configuration, and may be programmed with Motorola’s certified software for Dolby AC-
3 5.1 Channel Surround, Dolby Pro Logic, and MPEG®1 Layer 2. These applications use
Motorola’s 24-bit DSP56000 architecture and are the high quality solutions available. Flexible
peripheral modules and interface software allow simple connection to a wide variety of video/
system decoders. In addition, the DSP56012 offers switchable memory space configuration, a
large user-definable program ROM, two independent data RAMs and ROMs, a serial audio
interface (SAI), Serial host interface (SHI), parallel host interface (HI) with Direct Memory
Access (DMA) for communicating with other processors, dedicated I/O lines, on-chip phase-
locked loop (PLL), On-Chip Emulation (OnCE ™ ) port, and an on-chip digital audio transmitter
(DAX).