EDN

DSP/Coprocessor Combos Streamline 3G Basestations

Third-generation (3G) wireless telephony, with its promise of full Internet access and streaming multimedia, adds orders of magnitude to the complexity of wireless infrastructure. This creates myriad ...
Design-Reuse

Altera's DSP Builder Now Supports FPGA Co-Processor Development for Accelerating DSP Systems

Code:DSP Development Solution Enables System Designers to Build FPGA Co-Processors to Lower Design Costs and Improve System Performance San Jose, Calif., April 30, 2003— Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ...
EDN

Reconfigurable coprocessors create flexibility in DSP apps

With the advent of 3G and other computationally intensive market opportunities, there has never been a time better suited to the use of high-performance digital signal processors (DSPs). Unfortunately ...
Electronic Design

Digital ICs/DSPs: On-Chip Viterbi Coprocessor Frees Up DSP For Additional Tasks

Balancing cost, memory needs, and performance, the TMS320C6418 DSP chip takes aim at telecommunications, soft-radio, and broadcast applications. Based on the TMS320C64x core, the 'C6418 packs 512 ...
Electronic Design

RISC/DSP Core Provides Platform High Volume ASIC Projects

Royalty free and capable of being implemented in as few as 20,000 gates, the company has paired its XPA2 16-bit RISC core with the APE2 DSP coprocessor to provide a time saving solution for ASIC and ...
Design-Reuse

High-Performance DSPs -> DSP performance: Useful work per clock tick

The primary performance metric for general-purpose processors is clock speed. So it is tempting to think about all processors in terms of megahertz. In the case of high-performance digital signal ...
Embedded

TI beefs-up DSP line for telecom, software radios

Houston — Texas Instruments has beefed-up 320C64x digital signal processor line with the launching of the C6418 DSP, optimized for telecom, software radio and terrestrial and satellite broadcasting ...