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| Stream Processors Unveils Data-parallel Processor Architecture |
By BDTI, 2/14/2007
 Stream Processors, Inc. (SPI) this week unveiled its data-parallel processor architecture and announced two chips based on the architecture. According to SPI, its architecture is optimized for compute-intensive embedded applications which exhibit a high degree of data parallelism, such as video and imaging. SPI believes that cost-performance and developer productivity advantages will enable its chips to compete successfully against FPGAs, high-end DSPs, and ASICs in these applications.
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| Texas Instruments Announces Multi-core Baseband Processor |
By BDTI, 1/17/2007
 In December,Texas Instruments announced the TCI6487 multi-core baseband processor. The TCI6487 features three TMS320C64x+ DSP cores, and an antenna interface to support OBSAI and CPRI protocols. The device will be manufactured in a 65 nm process and is intended mainly for GSM, TD-SCDMA and WiMAX basestation applications.
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| PicoChip: Defying the Odds |
By BDTI, 12/13/2006
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late 1990s and into 2001 saw a large number of start-ups with unique
processor architectures targeting applications like wireless
infrastructure. Fabless semiconductor startup PicoChip stands out from
among this wave as a survivor. In this article, BDTI provides an update
on PicoChip’s status, technology, and business model.
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| Altera Hones DSP Capabilities with Stratix III FPGAs |
By BDTI, 12/13/2006
 Altera this November announced its next generation of FPGAs, the Stratix III. The new devices feature enhancements to the DSP blocks in addition to other architectural changes. These enhancements coupled with migration to a 65 nm process should boost the already-impressive DSP capabilities of the Stratix chips.
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| Special Preview: The Evolving Role of FPGAs in DSP Applications |
By BDTI, 10/18/2006
 The largest FPGA vendors, Altera and Xilinx, have invested heavily in developing DSP-oriented chips and development tools. BDTI has just completed an in-depth study of these DSP-oriented FPGAs, including benchmarking using an OFDM receiver benchmark representative of telecommunications infrastructure applications. In this article we present insights gained from our benchmarking and analysis, focusing on the evolving role of FPGAs and other implementation technologies targeting digital-signal-processing-intensive applications.
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| Xilinx Unveils Virtex-5 Product Line |
By BDTI, 5/24/2006
On May 15, Xilinx Inc. unveiled its new Virtex-5 line of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Of particular interest to FPGA users targeting DSP applications is an enhanced version of the DSP48 hardwired data path block used in the Virtex-4 line.
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| Jeff Bier's Impulse Response – Brainy FPGA Tools? |
By Jeff Bier, 5/24/2006
FPGA vendors have recently been trying to attract DSP engineers by rolling out a slew of high-level DSP-oriented synthesis tools. Sure, the new FPGA tools make for a good demo, but having witnessed a similar cycle ten years ago with high-level synthesis tools targeting ASICs, I’d ask some hard questions before signing a contract.
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| Inside DSP on Tools: FPGA Tools Bridge Gap Between Algorithm and Implementation |
By Amit Shoham, 6/15/2005
Implementing an algorithm on an FPGA requires much greater design
effort compared to a DSP or general-purpose processor. Efficient
FPGA implementations involve many subtle design choices and complex
tradeoffs. In addition, the languages and tools traditionally used for
FPGA design are unfamiliar to most DSP engineers. Fortunately, FPGA
vendors and several tools vendors now provide high-level tools aimed at
implementing signal processing algorithms on FPGAs while maintaining an
intuitive representation of the algorithm.
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