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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
 The
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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| 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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| Sandbridge Launches Power-Optimized Programmable Handset Processor |
By BDTI, 9/27/2006
 Fabless chip start-up Sandbridge announces its new, fully programmable SB3011 chip aimed at replacing baseband and application processors in cellular handsets. Given the multiplicity of cellular standards and the expected emergence of WLAN and TV receiver functionality in handsets, will the advantage of software programmability give the Sandbridge solution the necessary edge?
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| Jeff Bier's Impulse Response – Multi-Core Math |
By Jeff Bier, 7/19/2006
Freescale recently introduced a new DSP chip, the MSC8144, that contains four 1 GHz SC3400 processor cores. Freescale characterizes the new chip as being "performance-equivalent" to one 4 GHz core. But is it really? As usual, the answer is, "It depends." It depends on what kind of application you're running, on how you map the application onto the cores, and on how you choose to characterize "performance."
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