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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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| Jeff Bier's Impulse Response—Embedded Processor Wars |
By Jeff Bier, 12/19/2007
For a while there, it seemed as though DSP processors and general-purpose processors (GPPs) were morphing into one another. In an effort to provide better DSP performance, general-purpose processors (GPPs) were incorporating increasingly powerful DSP-oriented features.
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| Evaluating the DSP Capabilities of the Cortex-R4 |
By BDTI, 12/6/2007
In 2004, ARM announced its newest generation of licensable cores, called the “Cortex” family. Cortex cores span a wide range of performance levels, with Cortex M-series cores at the low end, Cortex R-series cores providing mid-range performance, and the Cortex A-series applications processors offering the highest performance. The first Cortex core to be announced was the Cortex-M3, and since then ARM has announced several others, including the Cortex-A8 and A9, the Cortex-M1, and the Cortex-R4.
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| MATLAB-to-C: Are Embedded Programmers Now Obsolete? |
By BDTI, 10/17/2007
Earlier this month The Mathworks announced embedded C code generation capability for its popular MATLAB tool, which is widely used for digital signal processing algorithm design. According to The Mathworks, the new Embedded MATLAB capability is intended to enable MATLAB users to generate efficient C code directly from MATLAB source code files for use in embedded applications.
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| Case Study: How Can You Prove You’ve Got the Best Multimedia Solution? |
By BDTI, 10/17/2007
As multimedia systems grow in complexity, system and SoC developers are increasingly relying on vendors to provide “solutions”—combinations of hardware and software that implement complete multimedia functions such as audio and video compression and decompression. Vendors have responded by offering a growing number of such solutions.
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| ARC Introduces Configurable Video Subsystems |
By BDTI, 8/22/2007
 Adding to its growing portfolio of licensable silicon IP subsystems, ARC has announced five configurable video processing subsystems. The subsystems range from the smallest-size AV 402V to the highest-performance AV 417V, and support multi-standard video encoding and decoding at resolutions ranging from CIF to D1.
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