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                                                                 EXHIBIT 10.30
                               SECURED PROMISSORY NOTE

$3,233,432.70     Woodside, California             November 16, 1998

     FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, DAVIDI GILO (hereinafter the "MAKER"),
hereby promises to pay to DSP COMMUNICATIONS, INC. (hereinafter the "PAYEE"), or
order, in Cupertino, California, or at such other place as PAYEE may from time
to time designate, in United States of America currency, the sum of Three
Million Two Hundred Thirty-Three Thousand Four Hundred Thirty-Two and 70/100
Dollars ($3,233,432.70), with interest on the unpaid principal balance. 
Interest shall accrue from the date of this Note at the rate of six and one-half
percent (6.5%) per annum.

     The principal amount under this Note and any accrued and unpaid interest
thereon shall be due and payable in full on the earlier to occur of (i) December
31, 2001, or (ii) the date on which MAKER has sold any of the 350,000 shares of
PAYEE's common stock purchased by MAKER from PAYEE on October 12, 1998, or (iii)
the date on which MAKER has sold an aggregate of 100,000 of any other shares of
PAYEE's common stock held by MAKER.

     The MAKER shall have the right to prepay all or any part of the unpaid
principal of this Note from time to time without any penalty or premium,
provided that any such prepayments shall be applied first against any accrued
interest, and then against principal.

     In the event of default in the payment of any installment of principal or
interest for more than thirty (30) days after such comes due, the entire
outstanding balance of principal and interest shall become immediately due and
payable at the option of the holder of this Note.

     If a party breaches this Note, the breaching party shall pay all costs and
attorneys' fees incurred by the other party in connection with such breach,
whether or not any litigation is commenced.

     All principal and interest hereunder shall be secured by (i) Three Hundred
Fifty Thousand (350,000) shares of PAYEE's common stock owned by MAKER pursuant
to the terms and conditions of a Pledge Agreement entered into on even date
herewith by and between MAKER and PAYEE (the "Pledge Agreement"), and (ii) a
Deed of Trust and Assignment of Rents on certain real property owned by MAKER.

     Consent by the PAYEE to waive one default shall not be deemed to be a
waiver of the right to require consent to waive future or successive defaults.

     This Note shall be governed as to its construction, interpretation and
enforcement and in all other respects by the laws of the State of California
without regard to the conflicts of laws provisions thereof.

     This Note shall not be modified, amended or canceled except in writing by
the MAKER and PAYEE or other assignee of this Note.

     The MAKER waives demand, presentment, protest, notice of nonpayment, notice
of protest and any and all lack of diligence or delays which may occur in the
collection of this Note.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the MAKER has caused this Note to be duly executed in
Woodside, California.
                                       /s/ Davidi Gilo
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                                       Davidi Gilo