TI Launches Single-core DSPs with Multicore Performance, Enhances Radio SoCs

Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has launched the TMS320C6671, a new digital signal processor (DSP) in the TMS320C66x DSP generation, and the enhanced TMS320C6670 radio System-on-Chip (SoC). Based on TI’s KeyStone multicore architecture, the C6671 DSP, the industry’s fastest and highest performing fixed-and floating-point single-core device, offers a compelling choice for developers wanting to ease into the world of multicore. At the same time, TI’s enhanced C6670 radio SoC delivers double the power/performance improvement over existing SoC solutions for communications-centric applications.

"TI is taking multicore to a whole new level by delivering solutions at higher performance levels and in less time than competing solutions,” said Ramesh Kumar, Business Manager, Multicore and Media Infrastructure, Texas Instruments. “For developers of high-performance applications wanting a feel for multicore performance but who are used to designing with single core devices, our C6671 DSP offers a true 'stepping stone' into multicore. And for developers needing more performance in communications-centric applications, our C6670 radio SoC offers enhancements that cannot be seen anywhere else.”

TI’s C6671 DSP, the first 1.25GHz single-core member of the C66x DSP generation, utilizes a strategic design approach that familiarizes developers with multicore devices without needing the expertise of working with such a device. Customers designing with the C6671 DSP will benefit from TI’s benchmark-busting multicore features including high-performance, increased number of peripherals and memory per core, and fixed-and floating-point performance on a single device.

Using TI’s C6671 DSP, developers can test out whether or not multicore devices suit their needs and explore options for migrating their designs to other processors in TI’s C66x DSP portfolio if more performance is needed down the road. By offering pin and software compatible platforms across TI’s TMS320C6672, TMS320C6674 and TMS320C6678 multicore DSPs, customers can more easily design integrated, power and cost-efficient products for high-performance markets such as mission critical, public safety and defense, medical and high-end imaging, test and automation, high-performance computing and core networking.

TI’s enhanced C6670 radio SoC is a 1.2GHz four-core device boasting improved accelerators for communications-centric applications including software defined radios (SDRs), public safety and emerging broadband radio systems. The added enhancements to the C6670 radio SoC include a new multistandard Bit Rate Coprocessor (BCP) as well as other coprocessors that accelerate physical layer processing for LTE, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA and WiMAX, substantially increasing system capacity and performance with low latency. In addition, the well balanced programmable CPU cores and configurable accelerators enable software defined radios with a simplified programming model. The addition of improved accelerators enables developers to develop multistandard communications-centric solutions for the industry.

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