Motorola 56001 DSP
E767890
The Motorola 56001 DSP is a 24-bit digital signal processor widely used in late-1980s and early-1990s computers and audio equipment for real-time audio and signal processing tasks.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Motorola 56001 DSP canonical | 2 |
| Digital Signal Processor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8952489 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Motorola 56001 DSP Context triple: [Atari Falcon, audioChip, Motorola 56001 DSP]
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A.
Motorola 88000 family
The Motorola 88000 family is a RISC-based microprocessor line developed by Motorola as a high-performance follow-up to its earlier 68000 series, aimed primarily at workstations and embedded systems.
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B.
Hexagon DSP
Hexagon DSP is Qualcomm’s proprietary digital signal processor architecture designed to efficiently handle complex multimedia, AI, and signal-processing tasks in mobile and embedded devices.
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C.
Motorola 68851
The Motorola 68851 is an external paged memory management unit (MMU) designed to work with Motorola 68020 processors, providing advanced virtual memory and protection features.
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D.
Motorola 68040 microprocessor
The Motorola 68040 microprocessor is a 32-bit CISC CPU from the Motorola 680x0 family, widely used in early 1990s workstations, servers, and Apple Macintosh computers for its integrated floating-point and memory management units.
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E.
Motorola digital protocol
The Motorola digital protocol is a model railway control standard used to transmit digital commands to locomotives and accessories on Märklin and compatible layouts.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Motorola 56001 DSP Target entity description: The Motorola 56001 DSP is a 24-bit digital signal processor widely used in late-1980s and early-1990s computers and audio equipment for real-time audio and signal processing tasks.
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A.
Motorola 88000 family
The Motorola 88000 family is a RISC-based microprocessor line developed by Motorola as a high-performance follow-up to its earlier 68000 series, aimed primarily at workstations and embedded systems.
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B.
Hexagon DSP
Hexagon DSP is Qualcomm’s proprietary digital signal processor architecture designed to efficiently handle complex multimedia, AI, and signal-processing tasks in mobile and embedded devices.
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C.
Motorola 68851
The Motorola 68851 is an external paged memory management unit (MMU) designed to work with Motorola 68020 processors, providing advanced virtual memory and protection features.
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D.
Motorola 68040 microprocessor
The Motorola 68040 microprocessor is a 32-bit CISC CPU from the Motorola 680x0 family, widely used in early 1990s workstations, servers, and Apple Macintosh computers for its integrated floating-point and memory management units.
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E.
Motorola digital protocol
The Motorola digital protocol is a model railway control standard used to transmit digital commands to locomotives and accessories on Märklin and compatible layouts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
digital signal processor
ⓘ
microprocessor ⓘ |
| addressSpace | separate program, X-data, and Y-data spaces ⓘ |
| architectureFamily | Motorola 56000 family ⓘ |
| bitWidth | 24-bit ⓘ |
| dataFormat | two’s complement ⓘ |
| dataPathWidth | 24-bit ⓘ |
| designedFor | real-time processing ⓘ |
| familyMemberOf |
Motorola DSP5600x series
ⓘ
linked to:
Motorola 56000 family
|
| hasFeature |
Harvard architecture
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hardware multiplier-accumulator ⓘ on-chip RAM ⓘ on-chip ROM ⓘ separate program and data memory spaces ⓘ serial communication interfaces ⓘ timer modules ⓘ |
| instructionSetType | DSP-oriented instruction set ⓘ |
| introductionPeriod | late 1980s ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Motorola ⓘ |
| market |
consumer audio
ⓘ
industrial control ⓘ professional audio ⓘ telecommunications ⓘ |
| packageType |
ceramic package
ⓘ
plastic quad flat pack ⓘ |
| primaryApplication |
digital signal processing
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real-time audio processing ⓘ telecommunications signal processing ⓘ |
| programWordLength | 24-bit program word ⓘ |
| status | discontinued ⓘ |
| successor | Motorola 56002 ⓘ |
| supports | fixed-point arithmetic ⓘ |
| typicalClockFrequency |
20 MHz
ⓘ
27 MHz ⓘ |
| usedFor |
FFT computation
ⓘ
audio effects processing ⓘ digital filtering ⓘ modem signal processing ⓘ music synthesis ⓘ speech processing ⓘ |
| usedIn |
audio equipment
ⓘ
computers ⓘ embedded systems ⓘ music synthesizers ⓘ sound cards ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod |
early 1990s
ⓘ
late 1980s ⓘ |
| wordLength | 24-bit data word ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Motorola 56001 DSP Description of subject: The Motorola 56001 DSP is a 24-bit digital signal processor widely used in late-1980s and early-1990s computers and audio equipment for real-time audio and signal processing tasks.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.