Contents
March 29, 2001
Cover Story
- DSP Directory 2001
DSPs are hot. According to market analysis from Forward Concepts ( http://www.fwdconcepts.com ), DSPs in 2000 became the largest processor-market segment, passing the traditionally strong 8-bit-microcontroller market. Compared with 1999 statistics, DSP worldwide shipments in dollars were up 40%, outpacing the overall processor market, which was up a healthy 31%.
Leading Edge
- Embedded waveform generator pumps out 1G sample/sec
- Design software helps DSP implementations
- Suite helps teams design pc boards
- Get T1 granularity over OC-48
- Software lets you size PLC for SOC design
- Tool links analog synthesis, physical layout
- Resilient packet ring goes silicon
- Suite integrates constraints management
- Content-based classification engine emerges
- Configuration memories make a modular migration
- Media-processor options expand
- DSP family adds members
- Integrated LCD controller simplifies display design
- Reference kit speeds Bluetooth design
- Quintet makes a performance
- Darts, anyone?
How It Works
- Sophisticated image processing draws a critical line
Adding a simple yet critical visual element to a televised football game-the distinctive "first-down" line-requires an impressive array of hardware and image-analysis algorithms.
Tech Trends
- Bluetooth vendors bite the bullet
After a year of indecision over interoperability issues, manufacturers bravely line up to test the market with a flood of new Bluetooth products. - Cable and harness EDA enables advanced electrical-system
design
Wiring is so fundamental that we forget that it is a system unto itself.
Departments and Columns
- COMMENTARY
Counting on what folks don't have?
- COLUMN
Designing with comparators
