FX8010

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The FX8010, is a DSP architecture, designed for realtime audio effects, designed by E-mu, around their EMU10K1 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, ie a constant number of instructions is executed per sample. Instructions are given conditional execution flag in similar to some RISC processors (notably the ARM), thus providing a constant runtime.