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Articles from
January 2006
| BDTI Releases MIPS24KEc Benchmark Scores |
By BDTI, 1/17/2006
Today BDTI released the first independent benchmarks results for the MIPS24KEc licensable processor core. The MIPS24KEc is MIPS’ highest-performance 32-bit core, and it is the first core to incorporate the “DSP ASE” signal-processing instruction-set extensions. BDTI’s analysis shows that these extensions give the MIPS24KEc serious signal-processing capabilities.
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| New TriCore DSCs Target Motor Control |
By BDTI, 1/17/2006
Last month Infineon introduced two new TriCore-based processors, the TC1161 and TC1162. These new chips join Infineon’s TC1xxx family of chips targeting motor control and other computationally demanding industrial signal processing applications.
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| Jeff Bier’s Impulse Response – Are DSPs Disappearing? |
By Jeff Bier, 1/17/2006
Looking back at the past year, a striking trend emerges: Increasingly, the hardware used for signal processing is something other than a DSP. I made a quick survey of the year’s developments by skimming the archives on www.InsideDSP.com. I discovered that only about half of the chips BDTI wrote about in 2005 were DSPs. The rest of the chips were general-purpose processors, FPGAs, or other types of hardware.
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| Case Study – Measuring Processor Energy Consumption |
By BDTI, 1/17/2006
Energy consumption is a chief concern for many digital signal processing applications, especially for portable applications where battery life is paramount. In these applications, an accurate understanding of energy consumption is critical to processor selection and to system design. Unfortunately, many obstacles hinder comparisons of processors’ energy consumption.
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