Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) | Subject: 300MHz TMS320C6713
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 29 March 2004
Audio-friendly DSP ramps up to 300MHz
TI's latest 300MHz TMS320C6713 digital signal processor offers a 33% performance increase over the existing 225MHz C6713 processor
This new DSP provides 1800MFLOPS for high-performance signal-processing applications that need the precision and dynamic range offered by floating-point calculations. Typical audio applications include high-speed encoding, multi-channel broadcast encoding, digital mixing and high-quality effects creation.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 29 March 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new 300MHz C6713 DSP is package and pinout compatible with the 225MHz C6713 DSP processor, making drop-in replacement straightforward and simple.
Also, application code can be reused as the new C6713 is code compatible with the TMS320C6711 and other C6713 devices already deployed in the market today.
Supporting the C6713 DSP is a C6713 DSP starter kit (DSK) that includes TI's comprehensive Code Composer Studio (CC Studio) v2.2 integrated development environment (IDE), providing the best floating-point development environment in the industry.
A cornerstone of the C6713 digital signal processor is its audio-friendly I/O that allows easy interconnects to bus standards associated with typical audio systems.
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This convenient I/O capability is enabled by two I2C multimaster and slave interfaces as well as two McASPs (multichannel audio serial ports) each offering independent Tx and Rx clock zones, eight serial data pins, extensive error checking and recovery, support of I2S and other bit stream formats.
The processor also supports an integrated digital audio interface transmitter (DIT) with 16 transmit pins, enhanced channel status/user data and support for S/PDIF, IEC60958-1, AES-3 and CP-430.
In many performance driven floating point applications, multiple channels of data are processed on the same DSP.
The 33% increase in processing power in the newest version of the C6713 will allow customers to add more channels per DSP without having to redesign existing hardware.
'Dolby has been co-operating with Lyrtech and Texas Instruments to get the Dolby Digital Professional Encoder ported to the 225MHz version of the TMS320C6713', said Sabine Jennings, Licensing Program Manager, Dolby.
'The addition of the 300MHz part to the C67xT generation will allow our customers to add a stereo encode pair to their end systems without increasing their footprint'.
Housed in a 256-pin, 27mm2 ball grid array (BGA), the C6713-300 DSP is sampling now with volume production in Q2 of 2004.
Pricing is $34.29 (10,000-off).
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