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Case Study: BDTI-Developed, DSP-Enabled Algorithms Optimize Speaker Sound

June 12, 2013 |

Posted in Audio, Case Studies, Processors, Software Development

The tension between cost and quality is one of the fundamental tradeoffs in the design of consumer electronics devices—and many other systems. Customers predominantly select among competing products based on price, especially in these challenging economic times, but consumers are also

June 12, 2013 |

Posted in Opinion, Processors

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Recently I heard a presentation from a start-up chip supplier promoting a new type of programmable architecture for baseband processing in cellular base stations and handsets. The company's CEO contended that digital signal processors (DSPs) are becoming passé, soon to be replaced by

June 12, 2013 |

Posted in Benchmarks, Low-Power, Processors

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Toward the end of an article published in the February 2013 edition of InsideDSP , analyzing BDTI's published benchmark results of Qualcomm's QDSP6 (aka "Hexagon") v4 DSP core, you'll find the following prescient quote: Qualcomm is, of course, not done innovating with

June 12, 2013 |

Posted in Audio, Low-Power, Processors, Software Development, Tools, Video

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In January 2013 , InsideDSP covered the CEVA-MM3101, the company's first DSP core targeted not only at still and video image encoding and decoding tasks (akin to the prior-generation MM2000 and MM3000) but also at a variety of image and vision processing tasks. At that time, the company

May 22, 2013 |

Posted in Low-Power, Software Development, Video

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Vision science studies suggest that the eye is able to discern more than 11 bits of dynamic range for each of the three primary colors – red, green and blue – that typically comprise a given scene. The optical nerve connecting each eye to the brain, on the other hand, is only able to

May 22, 2013 |

Posted in Communication, Processors, Software Development, Tools

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The cellular base station and its associated infrastructure topology have remained largely unchanged throughout the industry's history to date, although upgrades have periodically occurred to address the needs of evolving voice and data standards. Within each base station are beefy

May 22, 2013 |

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BDTI is well known for its software-related capabilities: performance- and power consumption-related benchmarking , for example, along with algorithm evaluation , and development and optimization work . But the company is no stranger to hardware, either. Take, for example, its recent testing of

May 22, 2013 |

Posted in Opinion, Software Development

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In my December column , I observed that smartphones and tablets are starting to be used in places where purpose-built embedded systems once reigned, such as point-of sale terminals. At home, for example, I have a small Android tablet that I use as an Internet audio player. And my local sandwich

April 10, 2013 |

Posted in Audio, Low-Power, Processors

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"If it has speech recognition, why do we have to use our fingers?" According to Bernie Brafman, Vice President of Business Development at Sensory, that simple question has been at the forefront of many of the company's customers' minds throughout Sensory's 19-year existence.

April 10, 2013 |

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Soon after BDTI got its start in the early 1990s, we became known for our benchmarks. We benchmarked whatever types of processors people were using for embedded digital signal processing: first DSPs, then CPUs, and eventually MCUs, FPGAs, and GPUs, too. One of the interesting things about

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