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| Case Study: How Can You Prove You’ve Got the Best Multimedia Solution? |
By BDTI, 10/17/2007
As multimedia systems grow in complexity, system and SoC developers are increasingly relying on vendors to provide “solutions”—combinations of hardware and software that implement complete multimedia functions such as audio and video compression and decompression. Vendors have responded by offering a growing number of such solutions.
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| Atmel Announces CAP Customizable Microcontrollers |
By BDTI, 7/18/2007
 In June Atmel announced the Customizable Atmel Processor (CAP), a family of customizable microcontrollers, and two initial devices. Customization in the CAP is achieved via a gate array block in which users can implement functions ranging from processor cores and peripherals to algorithm accelerators.
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| Case Study: Custom Benchmark Analysis—Making the Numbers Work For You |
By BDTI, 7/18/2007
Processor designers, marketers, and users with a sophisticated understanding of benchmarks know that raw benchmark results rarely give the most accurate picture of processor performance for a specific application scenario. While useful for providing a general impression of processor capabilities, raw benchmark results must be adapted to give a clear sense of how processors will perform in a particular application.
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| Jeff Bier’s Impulse Response – DSP Vendors Need Multi-Core Tools Strategy |
By BDTI, 6/20/2007
There’s been a lot of press lately about start-up companies offering multi-core DSP chips. What’s less widely discussed is that large, established DSP chip vendors have been offering multi-core DSP chips for years. These chips have been popular in “channelized” applications where workload partitioning is fairly straightforward.
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| Plurality's Hypercore Joins the Multi-Core Fray |
By BDTI, 5/16/2007
 There’s no shortage of startups with massively parallel processor architectures targeting high-performance signal processing applications, but Plurality isn’t discouraged. The company recently introduced a new multi-core architecture, Hypercore, that can support from 16 to 256 RISC processors on a single chip. Plurality is betting that its patented “synchronizer/scheduler” hardware will make Hypercore stand out from the crowd.
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| CEVA Unveils “Lite” Mobile Multimedia Platform |
By BDTI, 4/25/2007
 In March CEVA unveiled “Mobile-Media-Lite” (MMLite), a family of multimedia solutions comprising licensable silicon IP and software. The family is aimed at low-end multimedia-enabled devices such as mobile TV players, portable multimedia players, and multimedia phones. CEVA also announced the first family member, the MM2200, a single-processor multimedia platform.
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| Xilinx Spartan gets DSP |
By BDTI, 4/25/2007
 In recent years, FPGA vendors have been aggressively pursuing high-performance signal processing applications. This month Xilinx broadened its target DSP markets by announcing a new lower-cost DSP-oriented FPGA family, Spartan-3A DSP.
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| Stretch Announces Second-generation Software Configurable Processor |
By BDTI, 3/14/2007
 On March 5, Stretch, Inc. announced its second-generation software configurable processor family, the S6000, and two initial chips. The S6000, like the previous-generation S5000 family, features a RISC processor core with a reconfigurable compute fabric embedded within the processor datapath.
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