
Buyer’s Guide to DSP Processors
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Buyer’s Guide to DSP Processors

Buyer’s Guide to DSP Processors is the single most authoritative body of information on processors for DSP applications. BDTI’s experienced staff dissects and analyzes nearly every major commercial DSP processor, devoting nearly 40 pages of analysis to each.

Buyer’s Guide includes:

In-depth analysis of architectural strengths and weaknesses
Independent benchmarks
Comparison of major commercial DSP processor families

Analysis

BDTI analyzes each processor in detail, highlighting strengths and weaknesses in critical areas such as: architecture, memory, peripherals, energy consumption and management, fabrication, and development tools and application support.

Benchmarks

Buyer’s Guide gives results for each processor on the BDTI Benchmarks™, the most widely recognized, independent measure of processor performance on signal processing tasks.
BDTI analyzes the results in terms of cycle count, speed, cost/performance, energy efficiency, and memory use. Thorough explanations provide a full understanding of each processor’s capabilities.

Comparisons

The sixth edition of Buyer’s Guide contains details of major commercial DSP processors from Analog Devices, Freescale (formerly Motorola), and Texas Instruments, including analysis and comparison of 10 families of programmable digital signal processors.

Whether you’re an engineer who needs to choose a processor for a new design, or a processor vendor who needs to understand the competition, this is the resource for you. Buyer’s Guide provides the only independent benchmark analysis and comparisons of today’s DSP processors.

The BDTI Benchmarks™

The analysis in Buyer’s Guide is based on the results of the BDTI Benchmarks™, the de facto industry standard suite of DSP algorithm kernel benchmarks for evaluating processor performance on signal processing tasks. Each benchmark is painstakingly written and optimized in native assembly language following a strict specification.

The BDTI Benchmarks suite includes the following key DSP algorithm kernels: real block FIR filter, complex block FIR filter, single-sample FIR filter, LMS adaptive filter, IIR filter, vector add, vector maximum, dot product, Viterbi decoder, bit unpack, control code, and FFT.

Benefit from BDTI’s Expert Analysis

Benchmark results are just the beginning of the information in Buyer’s Guide. Based on the benchmark data, BDTI provides complete and detailed analysis of what’s behind the performance. Buyer’s Guide explains the architectural features that determine how a processor will perform in various kinds of tasks and highlights the differences between architectural approaches.

BDTI’s benchmark analysis is based on the following metrics:

Cycle Count
Speed
Cost/Performance
Energy Efficiency
Memory Use

Buyer’s Guide also gives the benefit of BDTI’s wide-ranging and hands-on experience with processors. BDTI doesn’t hold back from giving its honest, independent opinion on features, programmability, development environment, documentation, user support, and other factors critical to the successful use of a processor.

Each processor in Buyer’s Guide is subjected to BDTI’s rigorous evaluation of:

Architecture
Understand key architectural differences.
Performance is important, to be sure, but architectural differences are critical for understanding how well a processor will work in a particular application. BDTI’s expert analysts provide insight into a processor’s important features and limitations.

Performance
What really makes the difference in performance?
Buyer’s Guide uncovers the factors that influence performance benchmarks.

Applications
Learn the requirements of DSP tasks in key applications.
Buyer’s Guide presents profiling information on important DSP applications and tasks, identifying the critical resource-hungry portions of key applications.

Price and Packaging
Find out details that impact your parts costs.
Buyer’s Guide gives pricing and packaging information that always affects the bottom line in any design.

Development Tools and Software
Get expert evaluation of development tools.
No matter how great an architecture may be, usable tools and the availability of software libraries are vital to the success of an implementation effort. BDTI’s engineers give you their evaluation, based on hands-on experience.

Processors covered in Buyer’s Guide include:

"If someone is serious about evaluating a wide range of DSP technology, this is money well spent."

—Marketing manager, Semiconductor vendor

Analog Devices ADSP-21xxx (SHARC) Family
Analog Devices ADSP-BF53x (Blackfin) Family
Analog Devices ADSP-TS20x (TigerSHARC) Family
Freescale (Motorola) DSP563xx Family
Freescale (Motorola) DSP5685x/MC56F83xx Family
Freescale (Motorola) MSC81xx Family
Texas Instruments TMS320C55x Family
Texas Instruments TMS320C62x Family
Texas Instruments TMS320C64x Family
Texas Instruments TMS320C67x Family

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Pricing, Shipping, and Ordering Information

First copy: $2,695
Additional copies are significantly less expensive; contact BDTI for volume discount information.
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To order, download an order form in HTML or PDF, complete it and return it to BDTI by mail or fax.

Electronic Version of Buyer’s Guide

Buyer’s Guide is available in an electronic version (PDF) under the terms of an enterprise license. Contact BDTI for details.

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