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ARM's Cortex-A7 and A15: A Performance Versus Power Consumption Optimization Scheme

November 14, 2011 |

Last month's edition of InsideDSP included the article " NVIDIA and Qualcomm ARM Up Against Competitors ," which discussed (among other things) NVIDIA's upcoming five-core Kal-El (i.e. Tegra 3) SoC. Tegra 3 combines four ARM Cortex-A9 cores built out of conventional 40 nm

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

October 18, 2011 |

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NVIDIA and Qualcomm, two leading ARM licensees and SoC implementers for high volume consumer electronics systems, are now sampling their latest-generation mobile application processors. Both companies recently published documentation describing the unique design techniques and features of their

September 13, 2011 |

Posted in Audio, Low-Power, Processors

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Analog Devices and Texas Instruments both recently unveiled cost-optimized DSPs within one day of each other. Perhaps the seeming near-synchronicity was an innocent fluke. Then again, perhaps one vendor got an inkling of the other's announcement plans and decided that a near-coincident

February 28, 2011 |

Posted in Audio, Low-Power, Processors, Tools

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Even if you are a DSP industry insider, you may not have heard of UK-based Oxford Digital. Since its founding in 2006, the company has established itself primarily as a provider of design consulting services for audio applications. Through its consulting work, Oxford Digital has created a small

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 |

Posted in Benchmarks, Case Studies, Low-Power, Processors

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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

January 25, 2011 |

Posted in Audio, Communication, Low-Power, Processors

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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,

October 19, 2010 |

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Analog Devices (ADI) has expanded its Blackfin family of DSP-centric embedded processors with a new low-cost family member, the ADSP-BF592. The processor delivers a respectable 800 MMACS (million multiply accumulate cycles per second) for around $3. The trend is clear: ever-tinier

July 29, 2010 |

Posted in Audio, Automotive, Benchmarks, Low-Power, Processors, Software Development, Tools

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This spring, ARM added the Cortex-M4 digital signal controller (DSC) to its processor core line-up. This product brings digital signal processing capabilities to ARM’s microcontroller core line (the Cortex-M family). At the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose in April, NXP

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