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911 Consulting
911 Consulting provides DSP software and services to the communications industry, including world-class software development using state-of-the-art software development processes for applications in the cellular, next-generation 3G cellular and satellite communications industries.
911 Consulting and TI's new C64x™ DSP and C55x™ DSP cores
The demands of next-generation 3G wireless connectivity applications require DSPs with dramatically more horsepower than what is available today, and TI's new C55x™ DSP and C64x™ DSP cores will enable higher channel densities and more feature-rich communications for 911's customers. 911's 3G DSP software library will now be able to achieve the level of performance demanded by customers.
ATEME
ATEME is an electronic systems hardware and software manufacturer, focusing on specific developments and consulting, and specializing in DSP applications, creating algorithms for image processing, radar data and servo control. ATEME is a leader in analog, digital, communication link acquisition, processing, test and storage solutions.
ATEME and TI's new C64x™ DSP and C55x™ DSP cores
The new C64x™ DSP core will provide the performance boost ATEME needs to achieve JPEG and MJPEG in real time for high resolution frames, enabling 25 color frames per second at 1280 x 1024 pixels. This core will also provide enough performance to support the next standards in image and audio compression. Furthermore, it will reduce costs of ATEME's multi-DSPs systems; i.e., in PCI applications, where an existing C62x™ DSP parallel architecture with four devices is needed, now only one C64x™ DSP is required to achieve the necessary performance level. The new C55x™ DSP core will aid ATEME in developing their general use DSP boards, as lower consumption is important for battery applications and enhanced performance is needed for the image and audio compression process. The expanded addressing to 24-bit makes video applications easier, and the code handling efficiency that in the past required a microcontroller is a great added value.
Blue Wave Systems Inc.
Blue Wave Systems is a leading supplier of high-channel DSP subsystems used in telecommunication infrastructure equipment, such as VoIP gateways, digital wireless communications and intelligent peripherals. The ComStruct™ line of telecom infrastructure communication processing subsystems was launched in January 1999. At the heart of the ComStruct™ line is the company's FACT™ software (Framework Architecture for Communication Technologies), which enables the DSP subsystem to be rapidly and effectively deployed in a variety of carrier class telecom applications. Blue Wave Systems has been a market leader in DSP board-level products since 1983.
Blue Wave and TI's new C64x™ DSP and C55x™ DSP cores
As specialists in the provision of high density processing subsystems for communication infrastructure, the new DSP cores from TI will help Blue Wave Systems fulfill the demand to increase the number of channels per slot while reducing the power required per channel. With existing ComStruct products based on the C6000™ DSP and C5000™ DSP platforms, the C64x™ DSP and C55x™ DSP cores will enable a new generation of products from Blue Wave to satisfy this rapidly growing market sector.
The C64x DSP core will allow Blue Wave Systems to continue to set new standards in the delivery of extremely high channel density, now with the power to integrate real time video to continue the drive towards network convergence.
By taking advantage of the features of the C55x DSP, Blue Wave Systems will be able to meet the infrastructure requirements for channel density and reduced power demands in the voice and data processing markets.<
Blue Wave's FACT™ software frame-work using eXpressDSP™ Real-Time Software Technology will allow telecom developers to take best advantage of this increased performance and capability with the feature-rich environment provided to enable high-performance development through to deployment. By combining the benefits of FACT™ with the code compatibility of the new cores, the transition to these new devices will be eased significantly.
"Once again, with the launch of the C64x ™ core, Texas Instruments has demonstrated that they are the performance leaders, enabling us to deliver the next generation of infrastructure subsystems. Our FACT™ software architecture using eXpressDSP™ Real-Time Software Technology will allow our customers to deploy these next-generation solutions faster than ever before. With this new core we can be at the forefront of enabling the next wave of value added broadband wireless and video communications services."
"The launch of the C55x™ DSP generation further emphasizes the breadth of Texas Instruments DSP family. This highly power-efficient core will provide a common foundation for client and server applications in current and next-generation equipment. Leveraging the huge code base of the C54x™ DSP generation in conjunction with our FACT™ software product is a fantastic opportunity for us to be right at the center of the portable Internet revolution. TI has got it right once again."
Rob Shaddock,
CEO
Commetrex Corporation
Commetrex develops and markets value-adding technology products for the communications system developer. Its products include DSP-based telephony and media-processing technologies, DSP-resource boards based on the Texas Instruments TMS320C6000™ DSP platform and comprehensive open-architecture software systems that support multi-company collaboration in media processing and application integration in client-server telephony systems.
Commetrex and TI's new C64x™ DSP and C55x™ DSP cores
As a leader in integrated media technologies, Commetrex will leverage the new industry benchmarks set by the MIPS/ power ratios of the C64x™ DSP core to solve two common communications industry problems by developing two new open architecture products. The first product will meet the entire spectrum of communications needs for small-to-medium-sized businesses on one low-cost circuit board, finally making high-function integrated communications affordable for millions of small businesses.
The second is to provide the carrier equipment industry with the first open-architecture "any-media/anytime" communications processor in unprecedented densities on a CompactPCI¨ hot-swap board. In the C64x™ DSP- based CompactPCI configuration, single-board densities of 510 low-bit-rate vocoders and V.90 modems are anticipated. The cost, space and power efficiencies of this new communications processor in the hands of the growing army of competitive carriers will be an extremely powerful force.
Coreco
Coreco Inc. is a premier designer of vision processors, DSP engines and software products. The company's expertise in multiprocessing architecture offers OEMs and system integrators scalable products and faster development times at lower costs. Coreco's latest product offering, the Python/C6, is designed specifically for real-time processing applications and features the C6701, the world's fastest DSP offering 4 GFLOPS, inter-DSP communication links and on-board I/O for the PC, CompactPCI and VME platforms.
Coreco and TI's new C64x™ DSP core
TI's new C64x™ DSP core architecture will enable Coreco's next generation of vision products to achieve unprecedented levels of image processing performance. Once again, TI has shown their leadership in the DSP field by continuing to produce breakthrough products with incredible roadmaps ahead. Coreco's customers will gain by taking advantage of the software compatibility that allows them to migrate to new generations of their vision processors without having to rewrite applications. Coreco's engineering teams gain by taking advantage of the industry leading eXpressDSPª Real-Time Software Technology to create even more software and hardware solutions.
D2 Technologies, Inc.
D2 Technologies, Inc. is a leading supplier of innovative and cost-effective digital signal processing software for next-generation telephony. D2 develops, markets and supports DSP solutions for voice mail, IVR and voice and data over network for wired and wireless Internet/Intranet. D2 offers off-the-shelf software components, integrated solutions and turnkey engineering services to help customers achieve maximum performance in the shortest possible time. D2's products are field proven and have been incorporated into a wide range of industry-leading computer telephony and converged-network systems.
D2 and TI's new C55x™ DSP core
The low system cost and power-efficient performance from Texas Instruments new C55x™ DSPs will enable D2 to provide DSP solutions designed to address the robust demands of high-density carrier systems and converged network products while addressing the stringent cost constraints of consumer products.
"Texas Instruments new C55x™ DSP cores will deliver a 5x improvement in power-efficient performance over DSPs from other vendors, allowing D2 to create DSP solutions for Packet Cable and DSL voice access, LAN PBX, Home Networking and carrier gateways with D2's new vCore product line. Since it is in the same ISA as the C54x™ DSP generation, we can easily migrate our current vCore design wins to the C55x DSP core."
David Wong,
President and CEO
Delphi Communication Systems
Delphi Communication Systems is an industry leader in DSP-based software solutions for voice and data communications, and has developed significant expertise in designing DSP applications for the Internet. Delphi's core products include vocoders and software frameworks used in VoIP applications as well as base station and terminal software used in cellular and PCS communications. These products utilize the company's software architecture and are fundamental building blocks in both wireless and wireline network applications. The company maintains expertise on a variety of general purpose DSPs, including the TMS320C5000™ DSP and TMS320C6000™ DSP platforms.
Delphi and TI's new C64x™ DSP and C55x™ DSP cores
These new versions of TI DSPs will enable Delphi to include more of the functionality for our wireless and VoIP applications on the DSP, thus eliminating or reducing the additional circuitry and its attendant cost required to implement the product design. Delphi sees a future in enabling, through their software, a whole new class of wireless products that achieve a dramatic reduction in the price point for equivalent performance as a result of TI's new cores.
DNA Enterprises
Founded in 1981, DNA Enterprises is an established design services organization, offering comprehensive hardware and software design services to the telecommunications and signal processing industries, with expertise in switching systems, embedded systems, video processing and DSP. Their services range from concept evaluation, requirement development, architectural definition and implementation to prototype generation, product test and production. In addition to their services, DNA offers a product line of high performance board level products based on TI DSPs.
DNA and TI's new C64x™ DSP and C55x™ DSP cores
Design efforts using these cores will be customer-driven, which will be tailored according to customer requirements.
DSP Research, Inc.
Founded in 1989, DSP Research (DSPR) manufactures and markets products that accelerate DSP product development from design to production. They specialize in development systems, emulators and OEM solutions for VoIP and other emerging applications. Their products are wholly-based on TI's market-leading TMS320™ DSPs, which are the cornerstone of DSPR's success.
DSP Research and TI's new C64x™ DSP and C55x™ DSP cores
In the year 2000, DSPR will continue to incorporate TI's latest DSP cores in their VIPER, FleXDS and TIGER families of products.
The VIPER DSP Resource Boards from DSPR combine industry-standard Host and CT buses with on-board microcontrollers and Texas Instruments TMS320C54x™ DSP cores to provide telecom systems integrators and OEMs with best-of-class DSP application boards. Manufactured in DSPR's ISO 9002 facility, the award-winning VIPER boards today allow up to 240 channels of H.323 VoIP to run on a single board and are ideal for voice and telecom infrastructure applications such as VoP gateways. With the C55x™ DSP core, DSPR will be able to more than quadruple the performance of the VIPER and offer an even higher density/lower-cost-per-channel solution.
The FleXDS and TIGER development systems from DSPR provide the latest C5000™ and C6000™ DSPs in a unified environment that is ideally suited for the development, testing and porting of next-generation algorithms and systems. With the C55x DSP and C64x™ DSP cores, DSPR will be able to offer state-of-the-art development board and EVMs to carry DSP application development into the new millennium.
"Texas Instruments C55x™ DSP core will offer architectural and power-efficient performance enhancements that are crucial to DSPR's next-century VoIP solutions. With the C55x™ DSP core, TI has effectively quadrupled the performance of their C54x™ DSP while reducing the core-code by 30%. This makes the C55x DSP a faster, lower-cost, more efficient processor and an ideal DSP engine for DSPR's next-generation VIPER/voice-over-packet boards."
"The C64x™ DSP core from Texas Instruments offers the industry's best DSP performance. With an enhanced C compiler, reduced power consumption and a five-fold performance increase over the C62x™ DSP, I think it will be an instant success. Our complete set of development tools, including our advanced, modular FleXDS in-circuit emulator, and TI's DSP, will make it easy to evaluate and develop on any device on the C6000™ DSP platform."
-Bo Sjosten,
President and CEO
Express Logic
Express Logic provides embedded developers with high-performance solutions for multithreading, file management, graphical user interfaces and network connectivity with ThreadX, FileX, PegX and numerous networking products. All Express Logic solutions are offered with complete ANSI C source code and without any run-time royalties.
Express Logic and TI's new C64x™ DSP and C55x™ DSP cores
Express Logic's ThreadX provides real-time embedded Texas Instruments DSP developers with the most technically advanced multitasking solution on the market today. Its picokernel™ design results in very high-performance and extremely small memory requirements requiring less than 6 Kbytes for minimal usage. ThreadX also provides DSP applications with significant technical innovations including extremely fast software timers and a mechanism to help reduce context switching called preemption-threshold™. Express Logic is very excited about TI's new DSP cores and will bring the same unmatched ThreadX technology and integration to these DSP cores soon after release.
Fraunhofer Institut fuer Integrierte Schaltungen
Fraunhofer IIS is a leading research laboratory in the area of audio coding. Since the start of audio coding work some ten years ago, Fraunhofer IIS has actively driven forward the development of audio compression algorithms. Major parts of MPEG 1 Audio Layer-3 (MP3), the most popular format on the Internet, have been devised at Fraunhofer IIS in Erlangen. Another coding algorithm that was developed in cooperation with experts from Fraunhofer IIS is MPEG-2 Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), which is the most efficient coding algorithm currently available. AAC offers a data reduction by a factor of 16 while maintaining CD quality.
Besides devising advanced algorithms, Fraunhofer IIS engineers focus on the efficient real-time implementation of high-quality low-bitrate audio and video coding schemes on DSPs. Fraunhofer IIS implementations are widely used in professional as well as consumer devices.
Moreover, Fraunhofer IIS has developed one of the first mechanisms to technically protect intellectual property rights (the Multimedia Protection Protocol, MMP) and is working on audio watermarking technologies. Fraunhofer IIS is active in international efforts to develop methods to technically manage and protect intellectual property rights, including the MPEG-4 work on Intellectual Property Management and Protection, the Audio Engineering Society's (AES) activities on Internet Audio Delivery Systems and the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI).
Fraunhofer and TI's new C64x™ DSP and C55x™ DSP cores
TI's new DSP cores definitely address the demands of advanced mobile multimedia applications, both to achieve higher processing power and to enlarge the battery running time especially for portable audio devices.
Frontier Design
Frontier Design delivers custom hardware and software implementations for wireless and multimedia DSP applications, with services ranging from system engineering to algorithm implementation. Frontier Design has delivered many implementations on TI's TMS320C6000™ DSP products including speech compression, speech recognition and GSM baseband processors.
Frontier Design and TI's new C64x™ DSP core
GSM is a core competency for Frontier Design, and they continue to advance their product offering to keep up with the evolution of the standard. The recent addition of Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) has dramatically increased the processing demand for GSM data services. With TI's current C62x™ DSP product, Frontier can support eight timeslots of GSM processing, but EDGE increases the processing demand by a factor of about 3x. They expect the new C64x™ DSP core to support EDGE without a significant impact to Frontier Design's existing architecture or increasing the number of processors per board.
GAO Research
GAO provides a comprehensive suite of modem, fax, fax-relay, telephony, speech, VoIP, ADSL (G Lite) and residential gateway software. They also deliver highly optimized DSP algorithms, software modules and packages that serve as easy--to-use and off-the-shelf building components. Their full range of services includes reference designs, development to integration, testing and training on the entire family of TI processors. GAO's customers include the world's leading electronics, communications and semiconductor companies.
GAO Research and TI's new C64x™ DSP and C55x™ DSP cores
GAO Research is excited to hear about the quantum increase in processing performance available on the newest TI DSPs. As a leading supplier of embedded communication software, they are often challenged to provide the maximum channel densities with minimum footprint and power consumption.
The optimized compilers and the special application-specific instructions of the C64x™ DSP and C55x™ DSP will enable GAO's designers to deliver the next generation of products in a shorter timeframe. The phenomenal increase in speed and power efficiency will enable their customers to pack more broadband-capable devices onto boards and improve performance by several magnitudes. With these new DSP cores, GAO is confident that they will not only be able to meet the criteria for cost/performance but also exceed it.
Hunt Engineering
Hunt Engineering designs and manufactures DSP hardware platforms based exclusively around TI's TMS320™ DSP family, with targeted applications in the imaging/industrial inspection, SONAR/RADAR, acoustics and industrial control areas. The company specializes in combining multiple high-performance DSP processors with fast I/O interfaces, which, in many cases, leads to enormous bandwidth requirements in Gbytes/second and beyond. Hunt has developed unique technologies (HEART and HERON) to address these needs.
Hunt Engineering and TI's new C64x™ DSP and C55x™ DSP cores
Hunt will offer the new C64x DSP core processors as HERON modules, allowing existing customers to upgrade immediately and easily from the current C62x™ DSP, a value-added customer benefit. For example, Hunt's current wireless communications customers will see a performance gain of around 7x, while industrial inspection customers will see an improvement of around 15x. Many customers in radar and sonar will also profit from the module upgrade: key operations will be accelerated by between 6x-10x. Developers will benefit too, as they can start working on C64x™ DSP applications now, using the same software environment and interfaces as will be used in the final C64x DSP application. When the C64x DSP-based processor module becomes available, the developer simply replaces the C62x™ DSP-based modules with C64x DSP-based modules. For many of Hunt's current fixed-performance level projects, the C64x DSP will allow the project to be cost-reduced, extending markets and bringing new opportunities. For example, several wireless communications projects have used IF-band ADC converters feeding multiple C62x DSP processors. By making the easy switch to a C64x DSP HERON module, these can now move to a single processor solution. This brings a welcome cost reduction; but in many cases, this also means that more channels can be implemented in a single rack or cabinet of equipment. This brings even further reductions in size, power consumption and ultimately cost.
Ultimately, the C64x DSP core is a crucial part of Hunt's future plans, and will complement their existing modular C62x DSP and C67x™ DSP products. They are fully committed to the C64x DSP core, and will use the power of the C64x DSP to enhance their current systems.
Hyperception, Inc.
Hyperception, Inc. was founded in 1984 to provide DSP engineering software development tools that combined the power and cost-effectiveness of two emerging technologies: the IBM PC and DSP-based hardware. Since its inception, Hyperception has been committed to supplying cost-effective software tools that reduce or eliminate design barriers for DSP developers and engineers. The company's graphical, component-based software tools now support the latest DSP technologies and focus on the areas of traditional DSP design and analysis, virtual instrumentation, code generation and simulation/CASE.
Hyperception and TI's new C64x™ DSP and C55x™ DSP cores
Support is planned within Hyperception's RIDE (Real-time Integrated Development Environment) software to provide TI's new DSP cores with a graphical, component-based method of algorithm design. This combination of Hyperception development software with TI's new eXpressDSP™ Real-Time Software Technology and the new TI DSP cores will enable engineers of all types and levels of expertise to create designs in an unprecedented fashion. The overall scope of Hyperception's integration effort will be the bringing of products to market faster and with far more efficiency than ever before. Because Hyperception's software products fall into a cross-product development category, the benefit will likely be one of a general increase in the overall usage of DSPs in those areas requiring (or desiring) lower power. Hyperception believes it likely that advanced wireless applications (some of which may include direct real-time imaging, for example) might be one good area of increased business.
"Texas Instruments C64x™ DSP core has significant design enhancements that will allow our graphical component-oriented software development tools to achieve even better efficiency, enabling a faster time-to-market ratio for our customer base."
"The fact that Texas Instruments new C55x™ DSP core slashes code size by 30% while continuing to focus on power-efficient performance and low system cost will likely account for a number of new design wins in application areas not yet even considered as DSP-related product areas."
- James Zachman,
President
Illico
Illico is a leader in DSP software development and licensing for telecommunications.
Illico and TI's new C64x™ DSP and C55x™ DSP cores
ILLICO licenses DSP-based modem software intended for use in multi-channel environments. The improved MIPs performance of the new cores will permit a significant lowering of the per-channel cost of designs using Illico's software.
Ixthos
Ixthos, Inc. specializes in leading-edge, board- and system-level DSP solutions for real-time commercial, rugged industrial and military applications. Teamed with their parent company, DY 4 Systems, Ixthos has a full range of commercial off-the-shelf product offerings, consisting of industry-standard, open architecture DSP hardware, tightly-coupled, real-world I/O support and development software based on products from DSP industry leaders such as Texas Instruments. Other products include industry-standard, scalable, board- and system-level VME and Compact PCI hardware and complete integrated software elements for communications (SIGINT), RADAR, SONAR, audio, industrial control, vision and image processing systems applications.
Ixthos and TI's new C64x™ DSP and C55x™ DSP cores
TI's newly announced DSP cores will provide Ixthos with the leading-edge, high performance/low power, state-of-the-art DSP processing elements needed to successfully compete and secure business in their target market sectors, which include commercial, industrial and process control, semiconductor tools, defense and aerospace and telecommunications applications. In addition, the Code Composer Studio™ software development environment is unsurpassed in the industry and provides Ixthos and their customers with the right tools to reduce development costs and greatly decrease time to market.
Miller Engineering Services, Inc.
Miller Engineering Services, Inc. (MESi) specializes in off-the-shelf DSP-based soft modem, tonal signaling and call progress processing components for embedded telecom, wireless data radio and satellite communications markets.
MESi and TI's new C64x™ DSP and C55x™ DSP cores
The improved speed, power and code density in the C55x™ DSP core will enhance MESi's softmodem products in several key markets, including remote loggers, meters and controllers. With the lower power core and the independent power management features, TI DSPs and MESi software will not only increase product battery life, but will also reduce code size, both critical factors for portable equipment. The improved code density will allow MESi to fit more system features in its Low-Rate Data Modem System software per fixed-RAM size, so that more customers will use the general purpose TI C55xª DSP core as low-cost modem chip-set replacement.
The C5000™ DSP platform is a strong performer in multi-channel per core RAS and relay systems like FoIP, and the higher speed and improved code density in the C55x DSP core will help MESi to optimize the channels-per-watt-per-square-inch-per-dollar metric that is critical to this market. The C64x™ DSP core improvements enhance today's high-performing C62x™ DSP architecture: with the better code density and improved instruction packing, MESi can fit more channels into C64x DSP on-chip memory resources, and get better MIPs per channel performance as well.
Pentek
Pentek develops, manufactures and markets worldwide innovative DSP systems to original equipment manufacturers, distributors and value-added resellers. Pentek's offerings include industry-standard VME, VXI, PCI, PMC, VIM, RACEway and MIX bus-based DSP processors and coprocessors; analog and digital I/O modules; digital receivers; telecom and communications interfaces; DSP development tools and strong applications engineering and support.
Pentek and TI's new C64x™ DSP and C55x™ DSP cores
Pentek is eager to take advantage of TI's new C55x™ DSP and C64x™ DSP core technology by incorporating them on open-architecture, embedded system board-level products. As an extension of Pentek's complete line of existing TI processor boards and compatible I/O products, these extremely high-performance devices will open up new applications previously impractical for DSP solutions. Pentek's comprehensive suite of software development tools and applications assistance will ensure that their customers will be able to deploy these new cores quickly and easily.
Precise Software Technologies Inc.
Precise Software Technologies Inc., a leading developer of Internet protocols on DSPs, develops and sells royalty-free embedded software components and software development tools for the embedded software market. The company's products include a single-processor and multiprocessor real-time operating system, embedded Internet and networking protocols, utilities, drivers and software development tools. Precise products are used by system integrators and product developers to support the development of real-time software that is embedded in a range of applications, including Internet appliances, networking, telecommunications, avionics, consumer products, medical instrumentation, robotics and process control. Celebrating 10 years of RTOS solutions, Precise is a privately held company with headquarters in Ottawa, Canada and sales representation in more than 10 countries.
Precise and TI's new C64x™ DSP and C55x™ DSP cores
Precise will be porting its unique embedded Internet stack, Precise/RTCS, and its own Precise/MQX DSP RTOS to the C64x™ DSP and C55x™ DSP cores. Since the C64x DSP and C55x DSP cores are code-compatible with the C62x™ DSP and C54x™ DSP respectively, Precise expects the ports to be risk-free.
Without having to develop additional optimizations in the stack, Precise anticipates a 300% to 400% performance improvement in Precise/RTCS when running with the C64x DSP. This is possible because the C64x DSP is that much more powerful and because the C compiler delivers close to the same performance as a hand-coded assembler. The increase in speed should make the C64x DSP core a leading candidate for several data convergence applications such as cellular base stations, routers and gateways.
Similarly with the C55x DSP core, Precise expects up to five times improved performance in Precise/RTCS. The increased performance and low-power per MIPs rating should make the C55x DSP core a strong candidate in next-generation wireless communication devices since the C55x DSP core has the power to support single-chip solutions.
"Our Precise/RTCS is a unique TCP/IP stack specifically designed for embedded Internet applications that require network connectivity. When you're working across a network, nothing's more important than performance. TI's new C64x™ DSP core delivers the highest DSP performance in the industry, so we can provide our customers with even more significant throughput improvements over existing network connections."
"The power efficiencies that Texas Instruments has made to its C55x™ DSP core are very exciting. Add that to its performance enhancements, and TI has developed an ideal DSP core for use in battery-powered Internet appliances and devices. Combine that with our unique Precise/RTCS embedded Internet stack, and DSP software developers are provided with a powerful, effective DSP solution for Internet accessibility."
- Jeremy James,
President and CEO
RadiSys Corporation
RadiSys Corp. (NASDAQ: RSYS) designs and manufactures embedded subsystems that are used in a wide variety of electronics systems, from telecommunications equipment to medical devices to robotics applications. Its subsystems include Intel-based embedded computers, signal processors, communications interfaces and certain types of embedded software. RadiSys' highly differentiated position in the market is a result of its intense focus on Intel-based technology, having the broadest array of building blocks and a "perfect fit" product development strategy of using its intellectual property to design high-volume customer- and application-specific subsystems.
RadiSys and TI's new C64x DSP and C55x™ DSP cores
RadiSys is a leader in C6000™ DSP based off-the-shelf and customized Voice Gateway solutions, with their customers' voice processing requirements more than doubling every year. In addition to the voice processing requirements, most of the applications now require handling and management of both TDM and packetized data which creates more demand on the DSP and peripherals. To meet these demands, the new C64x DSP cores together with additional peripheral functionality can be targeted for very low-cost, high-density converged network products.
With the higher speed core, RadiSys will be able to do more packet processing on board the DSP as well as executing or at least accelerating some of the software-intensive protocol stacks such as TCP/IP, RTP/RTCP, H.323 and MEGACO and other emerging standards. Typically the stacks run on an I/O processor, but with an increase in channel count, the IOPs don't scale up as well as the DSPs do. With faster cores, each DSP can not only handle the many channels of voice processing but also all of the associated packetizing, encryption, mixing, statistics collection and jitter buffer management.
"RadiSys is excited by yet another pivotal design upgrade from Texas Instruments for its C6000™ DSP platform. With relative ease, our mutual customers can benefit from the broad range of RadiSys and TI software and tool offerings that they enjoy now, while experiencing an exponential boost in performance (up to 1.1 GHz) with the new generation of C6000™ DSPs."
- Yogendra Jain,
Vice President
Signalogic
Signalogic develops and markets TI's DSP-based software and hardware solutions, including off-the-shelf development tools, OEM hardware products such as telecom and data acquisition boards and OEM software real-time algorithms. The company also performs TI DSP project contract work.
Signalogic and TI's new C55x™ DSP core
Texas Instruments' C55x™ DSP next-generation DSP cores will provide a natural upgrade path and quantum leap in performance for the C54x™ DSP-based products Signalogic now has available. These include the "MIPs Monster" series of cPCI and PCI boards that use a scalable C54x DSP module approach to combine the telecom industry's highest DSP MIPs densities with voice-over-Internet, networking and computer telephony functions. With the C55x DSP core, the MIPs Monster boards will offer more than 100 GIPs in a single, cPCI 6U form-factor board, at less than 35 watts of power dissipation. This level of processing density is equivalent to stacking more than 50 Pentium III processors - which would be impossible without a liquid cooling system.
Spectrum Digital
Spectrum Digital is a leading third-party supplier of development tools for Texas Instruments DSPs and microcontrollers. These development tools include the a family of JTAG emulators, evaluation modules, eZdsp™ modules, programming utilities, code generation tools and debuggers.
Spectrum Digital and TI's new C64x™ DSP and C55x™ DSP cores
These two new TI DSP cores will enable TI DSPs to penetrate new applications requiring higher compute capability and lower power. Spectrum Digital already has in production JTAG emulators, which support these new low voltage DSPs and take advantage of the on- chip JTAG emulation features. They will continue to support these DSPs with innovative JTAG solutions to meet customer development needs.
Spectrum Signal Processing
Spectrum Signal Processing is a world leader in multiprocessing DSP systems, providing sophisticated hardware and software solutions to commercial and defense customers in a variety of high-growth markets including communications intelligence, RADAR, imaging and telecommunications. Spectrum's COTS and customized DSP systems offer scalability for maximum system flexibility, multiprocessing system software to decrease time-to-market, hands-on product training and cost-effective yet high-performance systems. Spectrum's complete line of DSP products includes a range of CompactPCI, PCI, VME, VXI and custom solutions based on C6000 DSPs.
Spectrum Signal and TI's new C64x™ DSP core
Spectrum is excited about the advanced signal processing opportunities presented by the availability of the C64x™ DSP core from Texas Instruments. Based on their existing quicComm board architectures, it will be possible to provide 70,400 MIPS of processing power on a single board, a performance increase of almost four times the existing C62x™ DSP solutions.
By combining the C64x™ DSP with Spectrum's high bandwidth communication ASIC, Solano™, the result is an unprecedented blend of processing power and data throughput. Solano currently provides 1,600 MBytes/s of peak communication bandwidth between C62X DSPs, I/O and the host. This combination is unsurpassed performance that will open up a world of new fixed-point applications. Due to the code compatibility with the other members of the C6000™ DSP family, this provides a clear and easy migration path for those customers using Spectrum's the quicComm architecture.
Spectrum Signal and TI's new C55x™ DSP core
Spectrum Signal Processing is excited by the possibilities afforded to high-density telecommunications applications with TI's unprecedented TMS320C5500 architecture. In utilizing the power-efficient, low-cost-per-channel, low-power-consumption 'C55 DSP, Spectrum will offer dramatically higher-performance and higher-density solutions that maximize the number of channels in a system, while lowering overall system cost. Combined with Spectrum's proprietary technology, the 'C55 DSP enables the convergence of MIPS-intensive telecommunications applications for areas such as wireless base stations, voice over IP gateways, video servers and Soft Radio.
Surf Communication Solutions, Ltd.
Surf is a leading provider of software solutions for remote access including V.90 modem, fax, voice and xDSL.
Surf and TI's new C64x™DSP and C55x™ DSP cores
Surf is currently supporting the C62x™ DSP and C54x™ DSP generations for convergent access solutions. The new cores will allow them to provide greater channel densities for these applications.
The Surf/TI combination already leads the industry for channel density and seamless convergence, and these cores will allow Surf to maintain their leadership position. They will be able to boost the channel density of computationally intensive algorithms such as G.728 to the full span or fractional spans that the market demands, providing xDSL channel density improvements as well.
"Texas Instruments new C64x™ DSP core is especially suited for remote access applications such as modem, fax, voice and xDSL because of the improvements that can be obtained in Viterbi, Reed Solomon and other algorithms. These algorithms are the core of our remote access software offering, and once again, TI is providing the high performance solution."
"Texas Instruments new C55x™ DSP core cuts power dramatically, providing current C54x™ DSP customers with a clear upgrade path to a range of code-compatible price/performance options. We are excited about providing our fully convergent voice, fax and V.90 modem multi-channel access pool on the C55x DSP with channel densities suitable for enterprise and even server-class applications."
-Ron Bleakney, President
Surf Communications
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Traquair Data Systems, Inc.
Traquair is a supplier of high-performance multiple processor DSP systems for use in the most demanding real-time applications of today and tomorrow.
Traquair and TI's new C64x™ DSP core
In conjunction with Hunt Engineering, Traquair's HERON DSP systems already provide their customers with the means of utilizing multiple TMS320C62x™ and TMS320C67x™ DSPs, in any combination, within a easy-to-use modular hardware framework. Utilization of DSPs using the C64x™ DSP core will naturally and easily extend the capabilities we support, offering substantially higher processor performance, higher throughput, maintained code compatibility and improved code efficiency.
Traquair and strategic partner Hunt Engineering have gone to great lengths to offer continuity in the hardware and software that they offer. The C64x DSP core and future C6000™ DSPs from TI are already planned for and easily incorporated within the HERON framework. Traquair's customers will be amongst the first to benefit from C64x DSP core technology, by being able to enhance their existing HERON systems with C64x DSP based processors, with little if any impact to their application software. HERON processor modules supporting C64x DSP technology will be announced shortly.
VoiceAge Corporation
Based in Montreal, VoiceAge is a spin-off of Sipro Lab Telecom Inc., known for its voice compression technology brokerage capabilities, and Universite de Sherbrooke. Tapping into this reservoir of expertise and experience, VoiceAge is well positioned to develop alternative solutions for specific customers or industries' needs through proprietary solutions. VoiceAge activities are geared to the integration, the development and the commercialization of applications and products that require a digital processing of voice or audio. VoiceAge's products are based on the ACELP technology, the basis of the G.729 and G.723.1 ITU standards.
VoiceAge and TI's new C55x™ DSP core
TI's signal processing platforms have always been at the core of VoiceAge's parent company offering, due to VoiceAge's belief that TI's DSP family is the benchmark of the industry, evolving to contribute directly to the birth of a new generation of communication tools and services. With the enhanced capabilities offered by the C55x™ DSP, technologies such as ACELP¨ wideband telephony can be implemented within extremely comfortable power consumption and manufacturing versus retail cost margins, thus allowing higher levels of expectations to be defined.
voicepump.com
The mission of voicepump.com is to develop embedded, high-density DSP software solutions to address the convergence of real-time voice, data, image and fax over the Internet or other packet networks. Their VoIP and Voice over Digital Subscriber Line (VoDSL) applications provide the signal-processing infrastructure to enable telecommunications products and broadband digital appliances for corporate, small office and home markets.
voicepump.com and TI's new C64x™ DSP core
Their current product, the VoicePump-6000, is a high-density, H.323-compliant VoIP gateway software package for the TMS320C6000™ DSP platform. They will be able to extensively utilize the new 16-bit MAC feature, which will allow four 16-bit MACs per cycle, in their C62x™ DSP-optimized G.72x series speech codec, G.165/G.168 echo canceler and other telecom algorithms. In doing so, voicepump.com expects the new C64x™ DSP core to allow them to increase the channel density of their H.323 gateway product by over 50%. |
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