To address the broader range of power, performance and area (PPA) demands of embedded applications, Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced it has expanded its DesignWare® ARC® Processor IP ...

It can be argued that quality audio is the most critical component in the effectiveness of an AV system. More so than inadequate video or complex operation, unintelligible audio makes it very ...

Outsourcing is now common practice in the technology industry. This is in line with the modern business practice of maintaining the core business internally, and outsourcing non-core activities. In ...

Royalty free and capable of being implemented in as few as 20,000 gates, the company has paired its XPA2 16-bit RISC core with the APE2 DSP coprocessor to provide a time saving solution for ASIC and ...

Synopsys ARC VPX5 and VPX5FS DSP Processors are based on an extended instruction set and VLIW/SIMD architecture optimized for highly parallel processing Multiple vector floating-point pipelines enable ...

System designers face a number of key questions during the architecture phase of their project. Increasingly one of these questions is whether to use an FPGA (field programmable gate array) or a DSP ...

Anyone who uses a cell phone, digital camera, or television set-top box can see why the semiconductor industry is under pressure to find new solutions for today's ...

In the early 2000s, digital signal processors (DSP) were simple in architecture and limited in performance, but complex in programming. However, they evolved to meet of the increased performance ...

Processor requirements in IoT applications continue to grow to support more human interaction. Functions such as detecting speech and faces or delivering a voice message are being added to existing ...

Signal processing systems often include multiple types of processors,such as Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), General Purpose Processors(GPPs), and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). These ...