Texas Instruments introduces first 10GHz DSP
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TI C66x
The semiconductor manufacturer has unveiled its newest digital signal processor (DSP), the TMS320C66x, as well as four scalable C66x multi-core devices.
Built with multiple 1.25GHz DSP cores, Texas Instruments (TI) is offering the industry's first 10GHz DSP with 320 GMACs and 160 GFLOPs of combined fixed- and floating-point performance on a single device.
TI's C66x multi-core DSPs can be used to design integrated, software-upgradeable and cost-efficient platforms in applications such as public safety and defence; medical and high-end imaging; test and automation; high-performance computing; and core networking.
The C66x DSP generation is based on TI's KeyStone multi-core architecture, designed to maximize the throughput of on-chip data flows and eliminate the possibility of bottlenecks.
The range includes three pin-compatible multi-core DSPs in two, four and eight-core versions: the TMS320C6672, TMS320C6674 and TMS320C6678 respectively; as well as a four-core communications System-on-Chip (SoC), the TMS320C6670.
All C66x multi-core DSPs are software-compatible with TI's existing TMS320C6000 DSPs, enabling vendors to re-use their existing software.
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