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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. (More)

Texas Instruments Announces $5.75 Floating-Point DSP By BDTI, 10/18/2006 This September, Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) announced the 200 MHz TMS320C6720 floating-point DSP, the least expensive in TI's 'C67x family of 32-bit floating-point DSPs. The $5.75 chip is intended for cost-sensitive applications such as musical instruments, medical imaging and biometrics, and continues the trend towards low-cost floating-point DSPs. (More)

BDTI Releases ARM1176 Benchmark Scores By BDTI, 10/18/2006 BDTI has released independent benchmark results for the ARM1176 licensable processor core on the BDTI DSP Kernel Benchmarks™, which measure overall signal-processing performance, and the BDTI Video Decoder Benchmark™,which measures performance on video decoding and similar workloads. (More)

Jeff Bier’s Impulse Response – Ballooning MIPS in Multimedia Apps By Jeff Bier, 10/18/2006 Many DSP-oriented systems that are destined for multimedia applications incorporate multiple application tasks--for example, an audio codec, a video codec and a networking stack. (More)