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Tensilica Offers High-Performance Licensable Video Engine By BDTI, 7/18/2007 Tensilica has announced 388VDO, a high-performance “Diamond Standard” core. The 388VDO offers the highest performance among Tensilica’s four new dual-core video engines, which support multiple video standards including H.264 and MPEG-4. The 388VDO is also the only VDO core that supports MPEG-4 ASP encoding. (More)

Atmel Announces CAP Customizable Microcontrollers By BDTI, 7/18/2007 In June Atmel announced the Customizable Atmel Processor (CAP), a family of customizable microcontrollers, and two initial devices. Customization in the CAP is achieved via a gate array block in which users can implement functions ranging from processor cores and peripherals to algorithm accelerators. (More)

Jeff Bier's Impulse Response—Signal Processing Algorithms Easier to Create, Harder to Sell By Jeff Bier, 7/18/2007 One of the things I really love about digital signal processing technology is how, year by year, it gets easier to create new things. Things like clever new audio or video compression algorithms, for example. (More)

Case Study: Custom Benchmark Analysis—Making the Numbers Work For You By BDTI, 7/18/2007 Processor designers, marketers, and users with a sophisticated understanding of benchmarks know that raw benchmark results rarely give the most accurate picture of processor performance for a specific application scenario.  While useful for providing a general impression of processor capabilities, raw benchmark results must be adapted to give a clear sense of how processors will perform in a particular application. (More)

Massively Parallel Processors for DSP, Part 1 By BDTI, 7/3/2007 In this two-part series, we explain why you should consider massively parallel processors, and what to look for in these chips. Part 1 explains the inner workings of processors like IBM's Cell, Stretch's reconfigurable chip, and MathStar's FPOA. (More)