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Atmel Develops Floating Point Unit for 32-bit AVR UC3 Microcontrollers
Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced a new technology, a Floating Point Unit, that is being designed for Atmel’s 32-bit AVR® UC3 product family.
This new technology will enable designers to replace a two chip microcontroller and digital signal processing (DSP) solution with just one Atmel microcontroller (MCU) for applications in the automotive and industrial control markets. ...
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http://www.atmel.comdate: 3/12/2010
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New multicore system-on-a-chip architecture from Texas Instruments to deliver 5X performance
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today unveiled a new System-on-a-Chip (SoC) architecture based on its multicore digital signal processors (DSPs) that integrates fixed and floating point capabilities in the industry's highest performing CPU. Running at up to 1.2GHz and providing an engine with up to 256 GMACS and 128 GFLOPS, TI's new multicore SoCs deliver over five times the performance of existing solutions in the market...
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http://newscenter.ti.comdate: 2/28/2010
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Freescale MSC8155 digital signal processor boosts performance for wireless base station equipment
Freescale Semiconductor has introduced its MSC8155 digital signal processor (DSP), a higher performance and cost-optimized version of the company’s flagship MSC8156 DSP based on the latest StarCore technology.
The MSC8155 includes next-generation acceleration and interconnect technologies that boost overall chip performance and further enhance the capabilities of broadband wireless base station equipment.
Similar to the MSC8156, the new...
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http://media.freescale.comdate: 2/27/2010
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Sandbridge Announces Certified BDTI Communications Benchmark
Sandbridge Technologies, a leading fabless semiconductor company developing multimode baseband/multimedia processors for low-cost advanced mobile devices, announced today that Berkeley Design Technology, Inc. (BDTI) has certified results for the Sandblaster SB3500 on its BDTI Communications Benchmark (OFDM). The SB3500 achieved the lowest cost per channel of all processors certified by BDTI using this benchmark.
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http://www.sandbridgetech.comdate: 2/15/2010
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