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DSP

Accelerators Reduce DSC Overhead in Motion Control Applications

Texas Instrument's C2000 Piccolo F2807x incorporates a trigonometric math unit (TMU) and control law accelerator (CLA) to handle high speed analog analysis.
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Microcontrollers

Power Efficient Multicore SoCs Handle Vision and HMI Chores

Texas Instruments’ AM5K2Exx and 66AK2Exx multicore SoCs address a range of applications from computer vision to user interface. They are based on Arm Cortex-A15 cores.
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Boards

Processor Independent Embedded Platform Supports Modular Development

E3 Embedded Systems is taking its Processor Independent Embedded Platform (PIEP) to Kickstarter to see if the embedded community can take advantage of a modular prototyping system...
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DSP

Low Power DSPs Target Audio, Imaging And Automation Applications

Analog Devices new ADSP-BF70x incorporates the new Blackfin+ core. It uses only 95 mW of power at 400 MHz.
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DSP

Ultra-Low-Power DSP Delivers 200 MHz To Audio/Video Analytics

Featuring up to 200-MHz performance, Texas Instruments’ TMS320C5517 digital signal processor (DSP) speeds processing of data with low standby and low active power consumption,...
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DSP

Smart-Meter SoC Combines Metrology With Security

The Zeus platform of devices from Maxim are complete smart-meter SoCs that contain three computing cores: