Communication

Next-Generation Power Architecture-Based SoCs Embrace Advanced Lithography, Core Virtualization, SIMD Instruction Set

August 23, 2011 |

Freescale's re-engagement with historical Power Architecture (previously known as PowerPC) CPU business segments, such as communications, industrial, medical, military, robotics, and surveillance systems, began in earnest at the June 2008 Freescale Technology Forum when the company unveiled

July 28, 2011 |

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Texas Instruments (TI) is continuing to expand its cellular base-station SoC family, incorporating multiple instances of the TMS320C66x (C66x) DSP core that the company introduced in early 2010 . The new TMS320TC16612 (TCI6612) and TMS320TC16614 (TCI6614) chips target femtocell (approximately

July 28, 2011 |

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Near-field communications (NFC), which traces its heritage to radio-frequency identification (RFID), has lately been promoted as a way to enable mobile phones and other portable devices to serve as electronic wallets. Early examples of the technology, operating on the 13.56 MHz ISO/IEC 18000-3

March 30, 2011 |

Posted in Communication, FPGAs, Processors, Software Development, Video

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In early 2010, Xilinx previewed its vision for what it calls an “extensible processing platform”—a highly integrated combination of a high-performance embedded processor subsystem and an FPGA. Earlier this month, that vision came one step closer to reality with

January 26, 2011 |

Posted in Audio, Communication, Low-Power, Processors

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CEVA has added the CEVA-TL3211 core to its TeakLite family of licensable DSP cores targeting applications ranging from handset baseband processing to audio processing in home-network, multimedia gateway, and living-room multimedia products. According to CEVA, the new core will reach a clock

January 25, 2011 |

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Freescale has launched a new family of application processors—the i.MX 6—that includes single-, dual-, and quad-core members along with a complement of hardware accelerators for multimedia applications. The processors combine ARM’s Cortex-A9 CPU with a 3-d graphics controller,

Freescale Launches 4G Baseband SoC

December 16, 2010 |

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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

September 02, 2010 |

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With the growth in mobile data traffic, there is increasing interest in fourth - generation (4G) cellular technologies, especially the Long Term Evolution (LTE) of the 3 rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) – the successor to GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSxPA technologies. LTE has gained

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