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| AutoESL’s AutoPilot High-Level Synthesis Tool Achieves BDTI Certification |
By BDTI, 2/16/2010
 BDTI recently completed an in-depth analysis of AutoESL’s AutoPilot high-level synthesis tool via the BDTI High-Level Synthesis Tool Certification Program™. BDTI evaluated the process of implementing applications on a Xilinx FPGA using AutoPilot, comparing it with traditional FPGA design based on hand-written RTL code, and with DSP processor software development. Overall, AutoPilot demonstrated a strong ability to generate high-quality RTL code—with equivalent resource utilization to hand-written RTL code.
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| Texas Instruments Introduces New Multi-Core System-on-Chip Architecture |
By BDTI, 2/16/2010
 TI has unveiled a new chip-level architecture for high-performance, multi-core DSP-processor-based SoCs. Most notable among its features are new on-chip and chip-to-chip interconnection mechanisms, an upgraded high-performance DSP core, and both hardware and tools support for programming concurrent applications. The architecture is optimized to run at 1.0 to 1.2 GHz in 40 nm process technology.
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| Microchip Offers High-Performance DSP Library for PIC32 |
By BDTI, 4/22/2009
This Article was updated on April 27, 2009.
This month Microchip announced a “high-performance” software library of common DSP functions for its 32-bit microcontroller family, the PIC32. This library replaces Microchip’s earlier DSP library for the PIC32, which was quietly released last October. The library includes 16- and 32-bit vector math routines, 16-bit filters, and 16- and 32-bit FFTs.
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| Improving Products and Product Announcements—Cost-Effectively |
By BDTI, 3/18/2009
We all know that test marketing is the best way to see if a product meets buyers’ needs. Household and consumer product manufacturers test their products with a select test market as a matter of course. They use test marketing as a rehearsal for product introduction and to avoid disasters. For technology developers and vendors, test marketing can be just as valuable, but finding the right test market can be tricky. After all, the right test market is the target market—and when this is the case, there’s little room for error.
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| ST Offers DSP Software Components for STM32 |
By BDTI, 12/17/2008
 ST Microelectronics recently announced a new library of digital signal processing software components for its low-cost microcontroller family, the STM32. STM32 chips are based on ARM’s Cortex-M3 core, and they target low-cost embedded applications, particularly motor control. The software component library includes a speech codec and variety of DSP and control-oriented functions, such as FIR and IIR filters, a PID controller, and an FFT. The PID controller is available in both C and assembly, and one of the two IIRs is also written in C; other functions are implemented in assembly only. The speech codec (there is currently only one codec in the library) is based on the Speex open-source format. Library functions can be used with the IAR, Keil and Raisonance tool chains for the STM32.
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| HP Licenses Imaging IP for Camera Phones |
By BDTI, 6/18/2008
 Late last year Hewlett Packard announced that it was exiting the digital camera market, citing a lack of growth in that business sector. But just because HP has quit the camera business doesn’t mean it’s abandoning all of its digital camera technologies; the image processing algorithms originally developed for HP’s digital cameras will now be incorporated into cell phones, enabling users to create high-quality prints from pictures taken with camera phones.
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| Case Study: Creating Super-efficient Embedded Software |
By BDTI, 6/18/2008
Digital signal processing algorithms are increasingly important in an expanding range of embedded systems. For example, compute-intensive multimedia functions are finding their way into applications from toys to appliances to telephones.
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| Case Study: Multi-Tiered Software Optimization |
By BDTI, 1/23/2008
While nearly all signal processing applications require some degree of software optimization, some applications require a sophisticated, multi-tiered optimization approach in order to meet their performance goals.
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| Microchip Switches to MIPS Core for PIC32 |
By BDTI, 12/19/2007
 Last month, Microchip announced a new 32-bit microcontroller chip family, the PIC32. With this family, Microchip—a long-time player in 8-and 16-bit microcontrollers—is going after the 32-bit microcontroller market, and making a big change in architecture. Unlike Microchip’s earlier chips, which were based on the company’s proprietary processor architecture, the new family is based on the MIPS M4K core.
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