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Hantro 8190 Will Bring YouTube to Cell Phones By BDTI, 3/19/2008 A few months ago, video codec vendor On2 announced its acquisition of Hantro, a company that offers licensable video codec accelerators and software.  At the Mobile World Congress in February, On2 unveiled the first offspring from the marriage—the Hantro 8190 licensable silicon IP core. (More)

XMOS Introduces Low-cost Multi-core Chip Family with Programmable I/O By BDTI, 3/19/2008 XMOS Semiconductor, a fabless semiconductor and software provider based in Bristol, United Kingdom, has developed the XS-1 family of what it calls Software-Defined Silicon (SDS) chips.  BDTI expects that XMOS will announce its first chip, containing  four 400 MHz 32-bit processor cores at the Embedded Systems Conference in April. (More)

Case Study: Shoehorning Maximum Signal Processing into Minimal Processors By BDTI, 3/19/2008 Digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms are increasingly important in embedded systems. For example, compute-intensive multimedia functions are finding their way into applications ranging from toys to appliances to telephones. But in many of these systems, cost constraints dictate a processor with very minimal horsepower and limited—or no—signal-processing-specific features. (More)

Jeff Bier's Impulse Response—¿Hola? ¿Hola? I Can’t Hear You Now. By Jeff Bier, 3/19/2008 I spent some time at the Mobile World Congress in Spain last month, where pretty much everyone involved in wireless technologies showed up. I am happy to report that there were some very cool new technologies demonstrated there, like Texas Instruments’ miniature video projector that may one day be incorporated into cell phones. (More)