2004

Case Study: Optimizing Presentations, Products, and Plans

December 10, 2004 |

Posted in Case Studies, Technical Marketing

Top-notch marketing presentations and press briefings are key to convincing prospective customers, partners, editors, and investors that a product is attractive and viable. Effective presentations combine clear, convincing technical information with a compelling marketing message—a

ZSP Family Adds Low-End, High-End Cores

December 10, 2004 |

Posted in Processors

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LSI Logic recently added two new processors, the ZSP200 and the ZSP540, to its ZSP family of superscalar DSP cores. With the addition of these cores, the ZSP family has become the largest family of code-compatible DSP cores available today. As with existing family members—the ZSP400,

Xilinx Unveils Virtex-4 Details

December 10, 2004 |

Posted in FPGAs

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Xilinx recently announced the architectural details of its new FPGA family, the Virtex-4. As explained in the July 2004 edition of “ Inside DSP ,” the Virtex-4 family includes three “platforms” that feature different ratios of reconfigurable logic, multipliers, and

November 16, 2004 |

Posted in Processors

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Yesterday Analog Devices announced the latest members of its SHARC family of floating-point DSPs, the ADSP-21367 and ADSP-21368. The '21367 targets high-end consumer audio applications such as home theater systems, and the '21368 targets professional audio applications such as mixing

November 16, 2004 |

Posted in Processors

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Three small, low-cost DSPs were announced in the last few weeks: the Freescale DSP56324, the Texas Instruments TMS320C5405, and the LSI Logic LSI403LC. All three parts are relatively inexpensive, but the LSI403LC is particularly cost-effective. The 120 MHz LSI403LC is priced at $3.96, compared

November 15, 2004 |

Posted in FPGAs, Opinion, Processors

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Last month MIPS announced a set of signal-processing-oriented instruction set extensions for its RISC architecture. Although these extensions significantly improve the signal-processing capabilities of the MIPS architecture, they won't win MIPS any special attention—all the other

October 12, 2004 |

Posted in Opinion, Processors, Tools

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Signal processing applications are becoming more complicated, and so are the processors that run them. As a result, application developers rely on compilers and other tools more heavily than ever. This has made tools a decisive factor in processor-selection decisions. Indeed, differences in

ARM, MIPS add DSP Extensions

October 11, 2004 |

Posted in Processors

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This month both ARM and MIPS announced new signal-processing-oriented instruction set extensions for their future processor lineups. ARM’s extensions, which it calls NEON, will greatly expand the signal processing capabilities of the ARM architecture. NEON will add a register file

October 11, 2004 |

Posted in Processors, Video

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This month DSP core licensor CEVA announced an unusual multimedia acceleration technology called MediaMagic. Instead of using specialized hardware accelerators, MediaMagic improves multimedia performance using a software technique CEVA calls a "pattern recognition engine." The pattern

October 11, 2004 |

Posted in Case Studies, Processors

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As digital signal processing finds its way into an ever-broader range of applications, processors that were not designed with signal-processing applications in mind are often called upon to perform substantial signal-processing tasks. At the same time, DSP processors are taking on new types of

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