Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) | Subject: TMS320C6455
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 17 May 2005
Top-end DSP brings Serial RapidIO on
chip
TI's latest DSP offers improved performance, reduced code size plus more on-chip memory and high bandwidth integrated peripherals.
Building on its leadership in high-performance signal processing, Texas Instruments has released the TMS320C6455 digital signal processor (DSP), offering improved performance, reduced code size plus more on-chip memory and high bandwidth integrated peripherals including the Serial RapidIO bus for interprocessor communications Using the new C6455 DSP, developers of telecommunications, network and video infrastructure end equipment and high-end imaging systems will see a system performance gain thanks to 2-12x boosts in performance and I/O bandwidth, allowing them to integrate more high-bandwidth channels, achieve higher image definition, and produce more efficient software easily for faster time to market
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The C6455 from TI supports our strategy for next generation DSP modules by enabling a step up in system performance for infrastructure applications requiring multiple DSPs per board while preserving our software investment", said Paul Virgo, Director BPO Marketing, Motorola Embedded Communications Computing.
"By combining low power per channel, delivered by the 90nm process technology, with an easy to implement Gigabit Ethernet infrastructure, the C6455 will allow us to enhance our range of building blocks and application-enabling platforms".
The new C6455 DSP, 100% code compatible with previous TMS320C64x devices, incorporates Serial RapidIO and other new high-bandwidth peripherals.