EE 445S - DSPs in Selected Products
- January 19, 2004: Roku Soundbridge network music players includes
an Analog Devices' Blackfin DSP.
The Blackfin DSP supports multi-format decoding
(MP3, WMA, AIFF, WAV and AAC files).
- January 19, 2004: Sundance combines the TI C6713 DSP,
an ARM CPU, and a Xilinx field programmable gate array (FPGA)
in a module for Internet-ready applications.
- November 8, 2004: Texas Instruments produces its first
1 GHz programmable DSPs
(C6414, C6415, and C6416) in volume.
Applications include wireless base stations and video conferencing.
- January 19, 2005: Samsung adopts TI image processor
technology in its "first camera phone with a hard disk drive for
storing images and video... [and] for three additional camera phones."
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- February 7, 2006: Fadata Ltd. offers the first
Java Embedded
Virtual Machine for TI TMS320C5500 and TMS320C6000 DSPs,
including the TI C6713 DSP starter kit boards (DSKs) used in class.
- July 5, 2006: VeriSilicon Holdings acquired the ZSP DSP
core business from LSI Logic for $13 million.
LSI originally acquired the ZSP unit in 1999 for $11.3 million.
More information.
- July 19, 2006: BDTI reports that "Freescale recently introduced
a new DSP chip, the MSC8144, that contains four 1 GHz [Starcore]
SC3400 processor cores."
More information.
- April 9, 2007: Navy's DDG 1000 Zumwalt
Class Destroyer Program to Utilize TI DSP.
"TI's 1-GHz TMS320C6455 DSP has been selected by Raytheon for use
in the U.S. Navy's DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class Destroyer program.
The C6455 DSP is the processing workhorse for ATRIM(tm) (Acoustic
Transmit Receive Integration Module) Sonar, a sonar signal
sub-system that incorporates multiple boards, each processing
four channels of sonar."
- October 21, 2007: C6455 at 1.2 GHz, Fastest Single Core DSP Available,
"C6455 DSPs give developers a significant performance boost at no additional
cost and are ideal for the most processing-intensive applications requiring
the highest performance and processor-to-processor communication."
- Data Translation announced on February 11, 2008, its
family of embedded boards for data acquisition based on the
TI TMS320C6713 digital signal processor.
Applications include acoustic noise and vibration analysis
as well as real-time feedback control systems.
- "TMS
320C6748 SYS/BIOS Software Development Kit (SDK)", demonstrations for fingerpr
int and face recognition.
- "MityDSP-L138F Software Defined Radio Using uPP Data Transfer", January 2012.
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