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Case Study: Choosing the Right Benchmarks for the Job

October 22, 2012 |

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. Processor developers

October 22, 2012 |

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Texas Instruments recently stated that it intends to de-emphasize application processors for smartphones and tablets , and instead refocus its OMAP processors on embedded applications. And Qualcomm, which has been very successful lately in smartphone and tablet application processors, is dipping

September 04, 2012 |

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Qualcomm recently opened up the QDSP6 (aka "Hexagon") DSP core in its Snapdragon SoCs to programming access by its customers and software developer partners. Multimedia applications, for example, can benefit from leveraging QDSP6 processing resources, boosting overall performance,

September 04, 2012 |

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

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Cost- and power consumption-sensitive digital signal processing applications tend to leverage fixed point processors, for a common fundamental reason: fixed-point processor cores are substantially less complex than their floating-point counterparts, leading to reductions in transistor count and

September 04, 2012 |

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Last year, I wrote about how gesture user interfaces are becoming mainstream . Today, with the IMS Touch Gesture Motion conference coming up next week in London, I thought I'd revisit that topic from a different angle. Among my colleagues at BDTI, there's been a healthy debate

September 04, 2012 |

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In one of last month's InsideDSP articles , I wrote: As FPGAs have evolved, the means by which engineers create FPGA designs have also evolved. In particular, design techniques employing increasingly higher levels of abstraction have been required to address the increasing chip

August 02, 2012 |

Posted in FPGAs, Processors, Tools

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Over the past 25 years, programmable logic devices have grown in capacity and capability through lithography advancements and the integration of specialized functional blocks. First were dedicated memory arrays derived from the same SRAM used to build logic cells. Next came dedicated-function

August 02, 2012 |

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Remember that childhood game where you try to decide which famous person—or which book, or whatever—you’d like to have with you, if you were to be stranded on a desert island? Well, choosing a processor is kind of like that. Except, with a processor, it’s not

August 02, 2012 |

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Two years ago, I wrote about my growing interest in "embedded vision" , the incorporation of computer vision capabilities into embedded systems, enabling those systems to extract meaning from image and video inputs. Though it's not usually spoken of as "digital signal

August 02, 2012 |

Posted in Audio, Low-Power, Processors

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Spansion is a name that's probably familiar to many of you, as a supplier of nonvolatile memories. You might be wondering, therefore, what the company's doing gracing the pages of InsideDSP . Well, hold that thought! Spansion was originally founded in 1993 as a joint venture of AMD and

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