An advanced digital signal processor that is used for video compression/decompression (P_64 or MPEG), still-image compression/decompression (JPEG), 2-D and 3-D graphic functions such as line draw, trapezoid fill, antialiasing, and a variety of high-speed integer operations on image data. A ’C8x single-chip multiprocessor device may contain from one to eight parallel processors, depending on the device version.