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Case Study: Choosing the Right Benchmarks for the Job

December 19, 2011 |

As embedded processors and applications become increasingly complex, good benchmarks are more important than ever. System designers need good benchmarks to judge whether a processor will meet the needs of their applications, and to make accurate comparisons among processors.

November 16, 2011 |

Posted in Benchmarks, Processors, Software Development, Tools

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Back in November 2010 at Electronica in Munich, Germany, Texas Instruments unveiled the TMS320C66x DSP family , then consisting of a quad-core communications SoC (the TMS320C6670 ) along with three pin-compatible conventional DSPs in two-, four- and eight-core variants (the TMS320C6672 ,

October 18, 2011 |

Posted in Benchmarks, Low-Power, Processors

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Last month's announcement by Advanced Micro Devices that its "Bulldozer"-based Opteron microprocessors for servers had begun shipping to customers for revenue , followed by last week's release of first public benchmarks for Bulldozer-based AMD FX CPUs , capped off a year-long

September 13, 2011 |

Posted in Benchmarks, FPGAs, Tools

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In design situations where optimum performance and/or power consumption is required, implementing digital signal processing functions in dedicated hardware versus software becomes an attractive proposition. A FPGA is a particularly compelling silicon platform for realizing this aspiration,

May 31, 2011 |

Posted in Automotive, Benchmarks, Processors, Software Development, Technical Marketing, Tools, Video

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A new industry association, the Embedded Vision Alliance, is being formed to help embedded system designers harness computer vision in their products. BDTI, which has initiated the partnership, believes that computer vision—extracting meaning from images and video—is poised to

January 25, 2011 |

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As we’ve all heard, the cost of creating a custom chip has skyrocketed. Still, there are applications where a custom chip is justified—usually by specialized, demanding technical requirements. Today, custom chips often incorporate multiple processor cores. The choice of a

Freescale Launches 4G Baseband SoC

December 16, 2010 |

Posted in Benchmarks, Communication, Processors

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The march toward 4G cellular networks is accelerating. For example, Verizon just lit up its LTE network in 38 U.S. cities. But widespread deployment will require lower-cost base stations. Freescale is aiming to enable lower-cost base stations with its new baseband SoCs, introduced last

November 18, 2010 |

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In early 2010, Texas Instruments (TI) announced a new multi-core DSP SoC architecture . This month, TI announced the first chips based on this architecture. This latest announcement includes details of TI’s new TMS320C66x (C66x) DSP processor core, which offers both state-of-the-art

November 18, 2010 |

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DSP processor core licensor CEVA has added to its portfolio with the new CEVA-X1643 and CEVA-XC323 DSP cores. The cores are the next-generation successors to the CEVA-X1641 and CEVA-XC321 , respectively. The new cores roughly double the clock frequency of the prior offerings to 1 GHz and are

November 17, 2010 |

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In the last issue of Inside DSP , we explained why good benchmarks are important both for processor users and for processor designers. We also discussed why optimized benchmarks are critical when assessing a processor’s performance for digital signal processing tasks. Given

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