TI’s six-core processors boast industry’s best power efficiency

Texas Instruments Inc.’s (TI) TMS320C6472, said to be the industry’s most power efficient, six-core DSP (digital signal processor), is targeted at process-intensive applications requiring low power consumption. Featuring six high-speed C64X+ DSP cores running at 500MHz, 625MHz, 700MHz, and fully backward compatible with other C64X DSP cores, the C6472 offers the lowest power consumption with the highest processing performance of any multicore DSP with the total of 3GHz performance in the market, performing at 3.7W performance and 0.15mW/MIPS.

TI’s C6472 supports applications that drive many channels, demand maximum performance density and for which designers must have access to sophisticated functions. Additionally, with a 4.8MB on-chip L1/L2 RAM, many applications utilizing the C6472 will not require any external memory. Its optimized DSP architecture maximizes subsystem performance on a chip. One of the advantages of this architecture is that in addition to dedicated L1 and L2 memory to each core, the C6472 features 768kB shared L2 program/data memory and a shared memory controller to facilitate high efficient and flexible inter-DSP core communications.

These devices are ideal for markets such as high-end industrial, test and measurement, communication, medical imaging, high-end imaging and video, and blade server. TI provides extensive support for the C6472, including an evaluation module, robust software libraries and a third-party ecosystem, to further facilitate the process of writing code that runs optimally on multicore devices. Also, the C6472 contains rich device peripherals, including GigaBit Ethernet, Serial RapidIO (SRIO), DDR2, telecom serial interface port (TSIP), host port interface (HPI), Utopia, Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) Bus and general purpose input/output (GPIO).

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TI’s TMS320C6472 delivers up to the equivalent of 4.2GHz of processing capability for high-end industrial applications and embedded systems.