BDTI's Guide to the LSI Logic ZSP Family

A BDTI Technical Evaluation

This report provides independent analysis and evaluation of the ZSP family of processor cores from LSI Logic. The ZSP cores are a family of 16-bit, fixed-point, superscalar DSP cores that primarily target multimedia, voice, and wireless baseband applications. LSI Logic offers the ZSP cores in a variety of forms, including licensable cores, captive cores, chip-scale packages, and the LSI40x family of DSP chips. The ZSP cores are also used in application-specific standard products (ASSPs) offered by LSI Logic and its licensees.

BDTI's Guide to the LSI Logic ZSP Family is a 60-page report that provides core-by-core, application-by-application analysis explaining which ZSP cores are suited to what applications and why. It identifies strengths and weaknesses, and compares the ZSP cores to other licensable cores and packaged processors. It will be especially useful for executives, marketing managers, chip designers, electronic system designers, hardware and software engineers, and engineering managers.

Information on ordering BDTI's Guide to the LSI Logic ZSP Family may be found at the bottom of this page.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Corporate Background
   • LSI Logic Corporation
   • Berkeley Design Technology, Inc.
   • Authors
   • Contributors
3. Selecting and Using Processor Cores
4. ZSP Family Overview
   • The ZSP Architecture
   • Current Family Members
   • Availability
   • Development Infrastructure
5. The ZSP Cores
   • Performance Analysis
   • The ZSPneo
   • The ZSP200
   • The ZSP400
   • The ZSP500
   • The ZSP540
   • The ZSP600
6. Conclusions

BDTI's Guide Series

BDTI's Guide to the LSI Logic ZSP Processor Family is the first in a new series of reports. Reports in BDTI's Guide series will provide an independent analysis of processor families from a single vendor. Reports in the BDTI's Guides series:

• Detail processor features
• Identify processor strengths and weaknesses
• Compare processors from a single vendor to each other and to key competitors
• Provide important insight from the established leader in the analysis of signal processing technology

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