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Texas Instruments Announcements Span the Processor Spectrum

November 16, 2011 |

Posted in Benchmarks, Processors, Software Development, Tools

Back in November 2010 at Electronica in Munich, Germany, Texas Instruments unveiled the TMS320C66x DSP family , then consisting of a quad-core communications SoC (the TMS320C6670 ) along with three pin-compatible conventional DSPs in two-, four- and eight-core variants (the TMS320C6672 ,

August 23, 2011 |

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Embedded vision is a clear "poster child" for digital signal processing silicon and software technology, beginning with the algorithms employed in image capture (including exposure, color balance, lens aberration correction, etc) through edge detection and pattern matching, and

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

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

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 25, 2011 |

Posted in Opinion, Processors, Software Development

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Ten years ago, I wrote about how licensable processor cores were beginning to play a more important role in the industry . Among other trends, I observed that large chip companies were beginning to adopt licensable cores for application-specific chips such as cellphone baseband SoCs,

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

September 02, 2010 |

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Texas Instruments (TI) recently introduced C6EZFlo, a graphical programming tool for its C6000 and DaVinci DSP families. C6EZFlo is a prototyping tool to help users quickly develop initial software implementations of their applications. In particular, C6EZFlo is designed to help

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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