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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 ,

September 13, 2011 |

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In design situations where optimum performance and/or power consumption is required, implementing digital signal processing functions in dedicated hardware versus software becomes an attractive proposition. A FPGA is a particularly compelling silicon platform for realizing this aspiration,

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

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 |

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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

February 28, 2011 |

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Xilinx has acquired high-level synthesis start-up AutoESL Design Technologies, bringing the AutoPilot high-level-synthesis tool in-house. AutoPilot accepts a C, C++, or SystemC description of the functionality of an algorithm or task and generates a register-transfer-level (RTL) implementation

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

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 |

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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

June 29, 2010 |

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Altera recently disclosed architecture details of its next generation Stratix V FPGA family. The architecture features a variable-precision DSP block, designed to provide better resource utilization for algorithms requiring a variety of data widths. Altera represents this approach

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