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THE 2009 DSP DIRECTORY DIGS INTO DSPs
THIS REPOSITORY OF EMBEDDED-SIGNAL-PROCESSING RESOURCES WILL HELP YOU FIND THE BEST PROCESSOR CANDIDATES AND DEVELOPMENT TOOLS FOR YOUR PROJECT.
BY ROBERT CRAVOTTA • TECHNICAL EDITOR -- EDN Europe, 01 Apr 2009 WELCOME to the 2009 EDN DSP Directory. As inprevious years, the directory provides a snapshotof the companies, products, and tools available asdigital-signal-processing resources for embeddedsystemdevelopers. The number of companies,devices, cores, and offerings in the directory continuesto grow. Some product lines have droppedoff the list only to be replaced by new ones. EDNis constantly uncovering companies that previouseditions of the directory did not list. If you notice acompany that we omitted, please let both the companyand us know that you would like to see it inthe next update of the directory.
Cost-conscious consumers have recently turned to CFLs to reduce their energy bills. CFLs now account for 20% of light bulbs that users purchase for residential use, and that number will continue to grow because of minimum-lighting-efficiency standards that the EISA set. A common misconception about the EISA is that it bans the sale of incandescent bulbs after 2012. “The [EISA] does not expressly ban incandescent bulbs. … It lays out performance thresholds,” explains Alex Baker, lighting-program manager for Energy Star. “If you can make an incandescent bulb that meets those performance thresholds, then you can continue to sell [those] bulbs.”
The print version of this directory serves only to set out—with a few highlights of key announcements that vendors have made during the past year—to list the companies that the Web version of this directory, at www.edn.com/dspdirectory, covers in detail. The Web version has taken on more importance as the company roster continues to expand the material well beyond the capacity of the print update. The full directory lists the companies selling software-programmable processors, cores, and software-development resources; provides an overview for each; and identifies the latest developments over the previous year at each company.
This directory aims to give designers and system architects enough visibility to examine the various processor options and quickly narrow the list of candidate processors for their project. The expanded online section presents each processor with detailed information and block diagrams. The directory uses a common taxonomy for describing and categorizing target applications that helps you to quickly find and compare competing processors for your projects. The Web material has more details on the common application taxonomy; you can comment on it and we can refine it as appropriate.
The “Where are they now?” sidebar on the Web helps you find companies that we no longer list, because they closed their doors, they changed their focus, another company acquired them (think AMI Semiconductor), or they spun off into another company. As always, the Web site duplicates and greatly expands upon the material you find in the print version.
If this directory helps you find or choose a device or core, please let the vendor know how you found its part. Help us continue to improve the directory by visiting us at www.edn.com/dspdirectory or by sending your comments and feedback to dspdirectory@edn.com.
ACTEL, WWW.ACTEL.COM
ALTERA, WWW.ALTERA.COM
ANALOG DEVICES, WWW.ANALOG.COM
ARC INTERNATIONAL, WWW.ARC.COM
New from ARC this year is its Sonic Focus software, which consists of an acousticalmodeling and time-domain-analysis engine. Optimized for the low-power ARC Sound Subsystem, it delivers a natural listening experience and extends playback time on battery-powered products..
ARM, WWW.ARM.COM
ATMEL, WWW.ATMEL.COM
Atmel bases its DSCs (digital-signal controllers) on its proprietary AVR32-UC3 and AVR32-AP7 cores and on ARM’s ARM926EJ-S core. The company’s Diopsis families of dual-core, VLIW (very-longinstruction- word), floating-point DSPs include its complex-domain GFLOPS Magic core with ARM7- or ARM9-based microcontrollers.
AUSTRIAMICROSYSTEMS, WWW.AUSTRIA
MICROSYSTEMS.
COM
CAMBRIDGE CONSULTANTS, WWW.CAMBRIDGE
CONSULTANTS.COM
CEVA, WWW.CEVA-DSP.COM
CEVA has introduced the CEVA-XC corefor use in 3.5 and 4G radio designs. XC isa fully programmable core that will enable asoftware solution for LTE Class 5 or WiMax II,which equates to a downlink data rate of300 Mbits/sec with 4x4 MIMO.
CHIPWRIGHTS, WWW.CHIPWRIGHTS.COM
CIRRUS LOGIC, WWW.CIRRUS.COM
NEW: COREWORKS, WWW.COREWORKS-SA.COM
Coreworks, a vendor of licensable silicon IP (intellectual property), recently developed SideWorks. The DSP technology targets cost- and power-sensitive applications, such as multimedia and communications. SideWorks enables the creation of DSP cores that are both configurable before fabrication and reconfigurable.
CRADLE TECHNOLOGIES, WWW.CRADLE.COM
EVATRONIX, WWW.EVATRONIX.PL
FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, WWW.FREESCALE.COM
Last year, Freescale introduced the MSC_8156 DSP, a six-core device based on new SC3850 StarCore DSP core technology, to advance the capabilities of wireless-broadband-base-station equipment.
HYPERSTONE, WWW.HYPERSTONE.COM
IMPROV SYSTEMS, WWW.IMPROVSYS.COM
INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES, WWW.INFINEON.COM
In 2008, Infineon expanded its DSC (digital-signal-controller) family with the XE164/167 devices, featuring a multiplyaccumulate unit for dedicated filtering algorithms; it also enhanced the XE16xM family for safety applications, adding a memoryprotection unit, memory checkers, and error correction for flash and SRAMs.
LATTICE SEMICONDUCTOR, WWW.LATTICESEMI.COM
MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY, WWW.MICROCHIP.COM/DSPIC
MIPS TECHNOLOGIES, WWW.MIPS.COM
NXP SEMICONDUCTORS, WWW.NXP.COM
Building upon the success of the CoolFlux DSP, NXP created a new embedded DSP core for ultralow-power software-defined digital-radio baseband processing and sensor processing. This CoolFlux BSP (baseband-signal processor) extends the classic CoolFlux DSP core with complex arithmetic, SIMD (single-instruction/multipledata) parallelism and Viterbi and FFT (fast- Fourier-transform) instructions.
OCTASIC, WWW.OCTASIC.COM
ON DEMAND MICROELECTRONICS, WWW.ODM.AT
NEW: ON SEMICONDUCTOR, WWW.ONSEMI.COM
ON Semiconductor’s innovations over the past year include the BelaSigna 300, an ultralow-power, high-fidelity audio processor for portable communication devices that delivers audio clarity without compromising size or battery life.
PICOCHIP, WWW.PICOCHIP.COM
PIXELWORKS, WWW.PIXELWORKS.COM
RC MODULE, WWW.MODULE.RU
RENESAS TECHNOLOGY, WWW.RENESAS.COM
Recent introductions in Renesas’ SH-2A series include the SH7262 and SH7264, which offer an FPU and 1 Mbyte of on-chip SRAM for digital-audio systems and graphicaldisplay applications. The new SH-4AL-DSPbased SH7366 processor provides multimedia support, including a VPU (video-processing unit) and USB.
RF ENGINES, WWW.RFENGINES.COM
SENSORY, WWW.SENSORYINC.COM
SILICON HIVE, WWW.SILICONHIVE.COM
SOUND DESIGN
TECHNOLOGIES,
WWW.SOUNDDESIGN
TECHNOLOGIES.COM
STMICROELECTRONICS, WWW.STM.COM
STREAM PROCESSORS, WWW.STREAM
PROCESSORS.COM
Delivering more than 200 GMACS, Stream Processors’ C-programmable Stream processors enable designers to adopt a software-driven model and eliminate dependencies on inflexible ASICs or complex multi- DSP or FPGA implementations.
STRETCH, WWW.STRETCHINC.COM
TENSILICA, WWW.TENSILICA.COM
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, WWW.TI.COM
TILERA, WWW.TILERA.COM
Tilera offers high-performance multicore processors targeting embedded-networking, security, multimedia-processing, and wireless-infrastructure applications. The Tile processor family targets applications requiring intensive packet processing for layers 3 through 7 at 1- to 20-Gbps throughput.
VERISILICON, WWW.VERISILICON.COM
XILINX, WWW.XILINX.COM
Over the last year, Xilinx introduced a highperformance reconfigurable-DSP product and expanded the XtremeDSP development platform to cover low-cost-video development. XtremeDSP includes a system generator for DSP and the AccelDSP synthesis tool; you can use The MathWorks’ Matlab and Simulink modeling environments for FPGA design.
XMOS, WWW.XMOS.COM
WELCOME to the 2009 EDN DSP Directory. As inprevious years, the directory provides a snapshotof the companies, products, and tools available asdigital-signal-processing resources for embeddedsystemdevelopers. The number of companies,devices, cores, and offerings in the directory continuesto grow. Some product lines have droppedoff the list only to be replaced by new ones. EDNis constantly uncovering companies that previouseditions of the directory did not list. If you notice acompany that we omitted, please let both the companyand us know that you would like to see it inthe next update of the directory.
Cost-conscious consumers have recently turned to CFLs to reduce their energy bills. CFLs now account for 20% of light bulbs that users purchase for residential use, and that number will continue to grow because of minimum-lighting-efficiency standards that the EISA set. A common misconception about the EISA is that it bans the sale of incandescent bulbs after 2012. “The [EISA] does not expressly ban incandescent bulbs. … It lays out performance thresholds,” explains Alex Baker, lighting-program manager for Energy Star. “If you can make an incandescent bulb that meets those performance thresholds, then you can continue to sell [those] bulbs.”
The print version of this directory serves only to set out—with a few highlights of key announcements that vendors have made during the past year—to list the companies that the Web version of this directory, at www.edn.com/dspdirectory, covers in detail. The Web version has taken on more importance as the company roster continues to expand the material well beyond the capacity of the print update. The full directory lists the companies selling software-programmable processors, cores, and software-development resources; provides an overview for each; and identifies the latest developments over the previous year at each company.
This directory aims to give designers and system architects enough visibility to examine the various processor options and quickly narrow the list of candidate processors for their project. The expanded online section presents each processor with detailed information and block diagrams. The directory uses a common taxonomy for describing and categorizing target applications that helps you to quickly find and compare competing processors for your projects. The Web material has more details on the common application taxonomy; you can comment on it and we can refine it as appropriate.
The “Where are they now?” sidebar on the Web helps you find companies that we no longer list, because they closed their doors, they changed their focus, another company acquired them (think AMI Semiconductor), or they spun off into another company. As always, the Web site duplicates and greatly expands upon the material you find in the print version.
If this directory helps you find or choose a device or core, please let the vendor know how you found its part. Help us continue to improve the directory by visiting us at www.edn.com/dspdirectory or by sending your comments and feedback to dspdirectory@edn.com.
ACTEL, WWW.ACTEL.COM
ALTERA, WWW.ALTERA.COM
ANALOG DEVICES, WWW.ANALOG.COM
ARC INTERNATIONAL, WWW.ARC.COM
New from ARC this year is its Sonic Focus software, which consists of an acousticalmodeling and time-domain-analysis engine. Optimized for the low-power ARC Sound Subsystem, it delivers a natural listening experience and extends playback time on battery-powered products..
ARM, WWW.ARM.COM
ATMEL, WWW.ATMEL.COM
Atmel bases its DSCs (digital-signal controllers) on its proprietary AVR32-UC3 and AVR32-AP7 cores and on ARM’s ARM926EJ-S core. The company’s Diopsis families of dual-core, VLIW (very-longinstruction- word), floating-point DSPs include its complex-domain GFLOPS Magic core with ARM7- or ARM9-based microcontrollers.
AUSTRIAMICROSYSTEMS, WWW.AUSTRIA
MICROSYSTEMS.
COM
CAMBRIDGE CONSULTANTS, WWW.CAMBRIDGE
CONSULTANTS.COM
CEVA, WWW.CEVA-DSP.COM
CEVA has introduced the CEVA-XC corefor use in 3.5 and 4G radio designs. XC isa fully programmable core that will enable asoftware solution for LTE Class 5 or WiMax II,which equates to a downlink data rate of300 Mbits/sec with 4x4 MIMO.
CHIPWRIGHTS, WWW.CHIPWRIGHTS.COM
CIRRUS LOGIC, WWW.CIRRUS.COM
NEW: COREWORKS, WWW.COREWORKS-SA.COM
Coreworks, a vendor of licensable silicon IP (intellectual property), recently developed SideWorks. The DSP technology targets cost- and power-sensitive applications, such as multimedia and communications. SideWorks enables the creation of DSP cores that are both configurable before fabrication and reconfigurable.
CRADLE TECHNOLOGIES, WWW.CRADLE.COM
EVATRONIX, WWW.EVATRONIX.PL
FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, WWW.FREESCALE.COM
Last year, Freescale introduced the MSC_8156 DSP, a six-core device based on new SC3850 StarCore DSP core technology, to advance the capabilities of wireless-broadband-base-station equipment.
HYPERSTONE, WWW.HYPERSTONE.COM
IMPROV SYSTEMS, WWW.IMPROVSYS.COM
INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES, WWW.INFINEON.COM
In 2008, Infineon expanded its DSC (digital-signal-controller) family with the XE164/167 devices, featuring a multiplyaccumulate unit for dedicated filtering algorithms; it also enhanced the XE16xM family for safety applications, adding a memoryprotection unit, memory checkers, and error correction for flash and SRAMs.
LATTICE SEMICONDUCTOR, WWW.LATTICESEMI.COM
MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY, WWW.MICROCHIP.COM/DSPIC
MIPS TECHNOLOGIES, WWW.MIPS.COM
NXP SEMICONDUCTORS, WWW.NXP.COM
Building upon the success of the CoolFlux DSP, NXP created a new embedded DSP core for ultralow-power software-defined digital-radio baseband processing and sensor processing. This CoolFlux BSP (baseband-signal processor) extends the classic CoolFlux DSP core with complex arithmetic, SIMD (single-instruction/multipledata) parallelism and Viterbi and FFT (fast- Fourier-transform) instructions.
OCTASIC, WWW.OCTASIC.COM
ON DEMAND MICROELECTRONICS, WWW.ODM.AT
NEW: ON SEMICONDUCTOR, WWW.ONSEMI.COM
ON Semiconductor’s innovations over the past year include the BelaSigna 300, an ultralow-power, high-fidelity audio processor for portable communication devices that delivers audio clarity without compromising size or battery life.
PICOCHIP, WWW.PICOCHIP.COM
PIXELWORKS, WWW.PIXELWORKS.COM
RC MODULE, WWW.MODULE.RU
RENESAS TECHNOLOGY, WWW.RENESAS.COM
Recent introductions in Renesas’ SH-2A series include the SH7262 and SH7264, which offer an FPU and 1 Mbyte of on-chip SRAM for digital-audio systems and graphicaldisplay applications. The new SH-4AL-DSPbased SH7366 processor provides multimedia support, including a VPU (video-processing unit) and USB.
RF ENGINES, WWW.RFENGINES.COM
SENSORY, WWW.SENSORYINC.COM
SILICON HIVE, WWW.SILICONHIVE.COM
SOUND DESIGN
TECHNOLOGIES,
WWW.SOUNDDESIGN
TECHNOLOGIES.COM
STMICROELECTRONICS, WWW.STM.COM
STREAM PROCESSORS, WWW.STREAM
PROCESSORS.COM
Delivering more than 200 GMACS, Stream Processors’ C-programmable Stream processors enable designers to adopt a software-driven model and eliminate dependencies on inflexible ASICs or complex multi- DSP or FPGA implementations.
STRETCH, WWW.STRETCHINC.COM
TENSILICA, WWW.TENSILICA.COM
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, WWW.TI.COM
TILERA, WWW.TILERA.COM
Tilera offers high-performance multicore processors targeting embedded-networking, security, multimedia-processing, and wireless-infrastructure applications. The Tile processor family targets applications requiring intensive packet processing for layers 3 through 7 at 1- to 20-Gbps throughput.
VERISILICON, WWW.VERISILICON.COM
XILINX, WWW.XILINX.COM
Over the last year, Xilinx introduced a highperformance reconfigurable-DSP product and expanded the XtremeDSP development platform to cover low-cost-video development. XtremeDSP includes a system generator for DSP and the AccelDSP synthesis tool; you can use The MathWorks’ Matlab and Simulink modeling environments for FPGA design.
XMOS, WWW.XMOS.COM
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