Cyclone® III devices offer a huge advantage in raw processing power over common DSP processors operating at much higher frequencies. For this comparison, processing power is measured as Giga Multiplies/s = Clock Frequency x the number of 16 by 16 hardware multiplies. Cyclone® III devices actually have 18 by 18 multipliers, but 16 by 16 multipliers are used for comparison to popular DSP processors.