Lpc2000

> I'm making an application on a LPC2132, that must performe a
> number of DSP operations. To find out how many operations I 
> can perform, I need to know how many clock cycles it takes 
> the LPC2132 to performe a 16 bit times 16 bit = 32 bit multiplication?

I believe it's 2-5 cycles to execute the MUL instruction.

Compared to dedicated DSP's, I've found the bigger limitation to be
ARM's lack of circular buffer management.  In a 4-pole IIR filter, I saw
most of the CPU BW spent managing pointers and ldr/str'ing rather than
doing the actual math.