Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: ChipX | Subject: Structured ASICs
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 02 April 2004
Another hat in the ring
Structured ASICs offer a new option for designers needing to provide digital signal processing functions, says Doug Bailey, VP Sales and Marketing at ChipX.
DSP is probably one of the most used technologies ever developed Products from cellphones to DVD players, to MP3 players, PCs, GPS receivers, wireless LANs and pretty much any other communications or media system use DSP to discriminate signals from noise, compress signals to fit a channel or condition the output of one system to the input of another
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 26 Jun 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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