Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2006-) | Subject: TMS320TCI6488
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 06 February 2007
Three-core DSP is W-CDMA basestation on
a chip
Texas Instruments has announced the industry's most highly integrated digital signal processor (DSP) targeted toward Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) basestations.
Texas Instruments has announced the industry's most highly integrated digital signal processor (DSP) targeted toward Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) basestations This new three-core DSP, running at 1GHz per core, supports all of the necessary baseband functions required for a macro basestation - on a single chip
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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