In recent years many fast Digital Signal Processing chips have appeared in the market. A signal processing workstation has been designed to get optimum performance from the TMS32010 signal processor. The host system is built around MC68000 which handles the system control functions. It also shares those tasks of the signal processing algorithms that it can do better than the TMS32010. A dual bank data memory is provided on the DSP card to allow this sharing of tasks in an efficient way and to enable the parallel operation of the two processors. The resulting throughout is higher than that in a conventional approach.