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Case Study: Reliable Benchmark Results Lead to Good Design Decisions

August 22, 2011 |

To paraphrase business guru Peter Drucker, "If you can't measure it, you can't design it." In the world of embedding processing, processor developers and users alike rely on benchmarks to measure and assess the capabilities of embedded processors on their target

July 28, 2011 |

Posted in Communication, Processors

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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

July 27, 2011 |

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A decade ago, ARM processors were mainly found in cell phones, disk drives, and few other specialized applications. These days, they seem to be everywhere, from microcontrollers to tablet PCs. During this same time period, digital signal processing (DSP) tasks—such as

July 27, 2011 |

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I recently spent a day at the Design Automation Conference (DAC)—an event that has been a mainstay of the EDA industry for many years. One of the interesting things about the exhibit floor at DAC is that you always find a mixture of new companies—often with interesting new

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

May 18, 2011 |

Posted in Processors, Software Development, Tools

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The MathWorks—maker of MATLAB modeling environment—has launched a trio of new code-generation tools called MATLAB Coder, Simulink Coder, and Embedded Coder. With these automatic code-generation products, The MathWorks aims to eliminate the need for development teams to maintain

May 18, 2011 |

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These days, few system design teams can afford the expense and time of developing a custom chip tailored to their specific needs. Therefore, most system designers are forced to rely on off-the-shelf chips that are a less-than-perfect fit for their needs. And even teams that are able

May 18, 2011 |

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Over the past few years, the use of open source software in embedded systems has become mainstream. In part, this is due the sheer necessity: Systems just keep getting more complex, incorporating more and more functionality, but design teams aren’t getting larger, and

March 30, 2011 |

Posted in Audio, Processors, Video

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Combining a CPU core, DSP core, and numerous video accelerators, new additions to the Texas Instruments (TI) DaVinci video-centric processor line target applications ranging from personal media players to multi-channel digital video recorders and professional broadcasting systems. The new chips

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