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PSoC available on standard 8- and 32-bit architectures 10/2/2009

Cypress Semiconductor’s PSoC (programmable system-on-chip) processors not only enable developers to dynamically reconfigure digital-logic blocks to form custom digital peripherals during runtime, but also support dynamically reconfigurable analog blocks to form custom analog peripherals—also during runtime.

Touch controller allows you to ignore extra touches 10/2/2009

Atmel’s mXT224 maXTouch touchscreen controller combines the company’s mutual capacitive sensors, a charge-tansfer method of signal acquisition, and an Xmega microcontroller with bundled software to provide processing for handling an unlimited number of touches on a touchscreen.

DSP engine sports hybrid-SIMD/VLIW operation with ITU compatibility 8/25/2009

The ConnX D2 DSP-engine option adds dual 16-bit MAC units and an eight-entry, 40-bit register file to the base architecture of the Xtensa LX DPU (data-plane-processing unit).

1-GHz Cortex-A8 maintains cycle-accurate operation 7/31/2009

Samsung Electronics and Intrinsity have worked together to produce an ARM Cortex-A8 processor, Hummingbird, that can operate at 1 GHz in a 45-nm, low-power process and maintain the same cycle-accurate and Boolean-equivalent operation as the original Cortex-A8 RTL (register-transfer-level) specification.

Tool bundles target FPGAs 6/25/2009

Xilinx this year introduced two families of Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGAs that enable targeted-design platforms. The company is now adding domain-specific-tool support to the targeted-platform concept. Xilinx’ ISE (integrated software environment) Design Suite 11.1 offers interoperable domain-specific design flows and tool configurations for logic, DSP, embedded processing, and system-level design....

DSP combines fixed- and floating-point operation 4/23/2009

Texas Instruments’ TMS320C6743 low-power DSP features both high-precision, wide-dynamic-range, floating-point operations and higher-performance, lower-power, fixed-point operations in the same device.

FPGA serial I/O hits 11.3 Gbps 4/9/2009

In the latest additions to its Stratix range of FPGAs, Altera has incorporated serial-data transceivers that support signal rates as high as 11.3 Gbps. The company envisages the Stratix IV GT’s parts finding applications in 40- or 100-Gbps systems. You might use a link at the maximum speed to directly connect an optical receiver or transmitter to the FPGA.

Customizable microcontroller, $75,000 NRE costs target 10,000-unit applications 4/1/2009

Atmel’s AT91CAP7L standard-product microcontroller has as many as 200,000 gates of MCPF (metal-programmable-cell fabric) that you can use to implement proprietary customer IP (intellectual property), hardware accelerators, additional processor cores, or peripherals.

EDN names winners of 19th Annual Innovation Awards 3/31/2009

EDN has bestowed its 19th Annual Innovation Awards, honoring a diverse group of electronics engineers and the ground-breaking products they have produced. The Altera Stratix IV 40-nm FPGA design team is named Innovator of the Year. Read on for a complete list of the winners.

Floating-point microcontroller doubles performance 3/31/2009

Targeting the needs of high-performance applications, Texas Instruments’ TMS320C2834x Delfino controllers offer twice the floating-point performance of previous TMS320C2000 devices.

PowerQUICC boosts performance, delivers flexibility and lower-power operation 3/24/2009

Freescale’s MPC8569E communications processor, which targets wireless-access-infrastructure applications, expands the integrated QUICC (quad-integrated-communications-controller)-engine family of devices to processing support with as many as four internal RISC-processor engines, double the amount of RISC processing on previous QUICC devices.

DSP core supports 4G wireless infrastructure 3/19/2009

Ceva’s Ceva-XC DSP core employs the company’s Ceva-X architecture to support 3.5 and 4G wireless designs. The new architecture accommodates one, two, or four vector-communication units alongside a single general computational unit to provide hardware support for as many as 64 simultaneous 16×16-bit MAC (multiply/accumulate) operations or 128 16×8-bit MAC operations

Companion processor supports video editing on the phone 2/19/2009

Semiconductor start-up Movidia has announced the MA1110 multimedia processor for mobile phones. The MA1110 operates as an attached processor to the baseband or to another applications processor in medium- to high-end phone designs to enable high-performance in-phone-video postproduction in real time on low power budgets.

Voices: Microchip’s Ganesh Moorthy 12/15/2008

Executive discusses support for embedded developers, general-purpose versus application-specific products, trends in embedded-processor integration, and software.

Avnet, TI, and Xilinx deliver FPGA/DSP development board for digital video 10/31/2008

Avnet, Texas Instruments, and Xilinx today announced the availability of the Avnet Spartan-3A DSP DaVinci Development Kit, an aptly (albeit cumbersomely) named development board that combines a Xilink Spartan-3A FPGA with a TI media-processor DSP for digital-video applications including automotive systems, machine vision, and surveillance.

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