Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) | Subject: TMS320C6416, TMS320C6415 and TMS320C6414
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 12 March 2003
DSPs raise the performance bar
Texas Instruments is reclaiming supremacy in DSP performance with three new devices with record-breaking clock frequencies of 720MHz
Based on TI's digital signal processing technology, these new DSPs are designed to boost multichannel density, enhance multifunction flexibility and increase bandwidth for higher frame rates and better resolution. The devices will allow digital video, imaging and wireless/telecomms infrastructure customers to fully capitalise on the industry's highest performance, enabling them to bring next-generation innovations to market quickly.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 March 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Available today, the 720MHz TMS320C6416, TMS320C6415 and TMS320C6414 DSPs are based on the TMS320C64x DSP core and produced on TI's advanced 130nm copper process technology.
'We are excited that our 720MHz DSP sets a new performance standard for the signal processing industry.
It provides customers with a code compatible engine in production today for fast development of their next-generation products', said Leon Adams, Manager, Worldwide DSP Product Marketing, TI.
The three new DSPs include 1Mbyte of on-chip high-speed memory and high-speed peripherals that accelerate applications and processing of real-time data.
The 720MHz C6414 DSP's 64-channel enhanced direct memory access (EDMA) controller delivers input/output efficiency that manages data transfer from system memory at gigabytes per second.
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'TI's new 720MHz C6414 DSP will enable Zonare's portable ultrasound product to find temporal related health problems that would have been previously unable to be diagnosed', said Glen McLaughlin, Chief Technology Officer, Zonare.
The 720MHz C6415 DSP features 33MHz, 32bit PCI and host port interface (HPI) connectivity for interprocessor communications.
In addition, the processor supports 50MHz Utopia Level II ATM connectivity.
Support for high definition (HD) video decoding applications is now real with this class of performance.
For digital video head-end infrastructure systems, HD MPEG-2 video transrating can be achieved on a single 720MHz C6415 DSP.
The 720MHz C6416 DSP, the most highly integrated of the three, also features the onboard Viterbi and Turbo coprocessors to further improve the channel capacity of 3G wireless basestations.
'The increased performance of TI's 720MHz C6416 DSP allows AirNet to add our adaptive antenna array processing technology to our existing eight timeslots of GSM/GPRS/EDGE modems - all on one DSP', said Thomas R Schmutz, Vice President, Engineering, AirNet Communications Corp.
The 720MHz C64x DSPs are all code compatible with previous C64x and TMS320C62x designs, allowing customers to create software for today's devices and be confident that the investment will be preserved for higher-performance in the future.
Developers can use TI's eXpressDSP software and development tools and reusable off-the-shelf software available from TI's third-party network to increase time to market.
Production quantities of all three DSPs can be ordered today through TI distributors.
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