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Articles from
May 2006
| 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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| Freescale Announces New Multicore DSP |
By BDTI, 5/24/2006
Freescale’s newest multi-core DSP features four of StarCore’s latest SC3400 DSP cores operating at up to 1 GHz. The new chip is mainly focused on multi-channel infrastructure applications such as wireless base stations, carrier-class voice-over-packet equipment, and media gateways.
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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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| Custom Benchmarks |
By BDTI, 5/24/2006
BDTI recently used its expertise to help a major manufacturer of cellular phones analyze competing DSP cores under consideration for baseband processing in its next generation phones. BDTI’s custom benchmarking services enable system and system-on-chip developers to quickly make confident processor choices and architectural decisions, while reducing the benchmarking workload on their in-house engineering resources.
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