Today's advanced Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Systems must handle very high data rates in an effi-
cient and cost effective manner. System architectures for data acquisition, data movement, data pro-
cessing, and data storage have evolved from specially designed, proprietary interconnects to the use of
industry standards. There now exists a rich set of ANSI standard interconnect technologies that allow
the integration of cost effective, high bandwidth, advanced DSP systems. This paper presents a typical
architecture for advanced DSP systems and provides a technical overview of four standard interconnect
technologies to include: RACEway, FPDP, Serial FPDP, and Fibre Channel. It then provides specific
examples of how these standards technologies can be deployed in systems to fulfill the cost effective,
high throughput, interconnect requirements of advanced radar, sonar, medical and other DSP applica-
tions.