DSPs

The importance of voice AI and immersive audio in home entertainment, automotice infotainement and smartphones has led Cadence to announce its sixth generation of optimised DSP IP, the Tensilicia HiFi iQ DSP, which is purpose-built for on-device voice AI and audio. The latest addition to the HiFi DSP family is based on a purpose-built architecture designed and has double the ...

Last year, the ecsn (Electronic Components Supply Network), the body which represents authorised distributors in the UK and Eire, reported that its members were entering 2025 with “extreme caution”. Customer demand was difficult to judge amid trade issues and high customer in-house inventory levels. Its forecast for 2026 is in a similar vein as global trade issues, such as trade ...

Microchip has announced Autosar-ready ISO 26262-compliant dsPIC33C MCUs for vehicle use. Developed following ISO 26262 process, the dsPIC33CK family has hardware features intended to simplify functional safety certifications for ASIL-B and SIL-2 automotive and industrial safety-critical applications. The dsPIC33CK1024MP7xx part of the family has 1Mbyte of flash and “enables applications running automotive software like Autosar, OS, MCAL drivers, ISO 26262 functional ...

The latest report from DMASS shows a downturn in the European semiconductor business across Europe in Q2 and directly links the fall of over 20% to the effects of the global pandemic and ensuing lockdown. The report records a fall in sales of 20.7% to €1.82bn in Q2 compared to the first three months of 2020. The fall was feared ...

Microchip is aiming at sophisticated motor control with a single-core DSP MCU

  AMS has announced a configurable capacitive sensing front end which allows speed and resolution to be traded to optimise designs. Called PCap04, it can capture and digitise 50,000 times per second at its fastest setting, or achieve 8aF resolution at its most sensitive. “Configurability also enables sensor manufacturers to trade measurement speed off against power consumption. In low-power mode, ...

TI has introduced three retimers which enable an extended signal range over long traces, connectors and cables without degradation of signal integrity. These devices expand TI’s high-performance retimer portfolio, and support flexible, cost-optimized system design, enabling designers to speed their products to market while maintaining optimal performance. The retimers improve signal quality by removing jitter and compensating loss for signals ...

Exar has introduced a digital video recorder on a PCI Express card for professional video surveillance applications. The VRC7016XE card features two Exar S7110 software configurable processors and performs H.264 encoding on 16 channels of up to 960H NTSC/PAL video at full resolution and frame rate. With 960H video, surveillance systems can have a wider horizontal field-of-view (FOV) than what ...

Analog Devices has combined an ARM Cortex-M4 processor and a model-based design platform to address the needs of closed loop motor and solar photo-voltaic (PV) inverter control. The floating-point Cortex-M4 processor core runs at 240MHz and ADI has also integrated a dual 16-bit A/D converter with up to 14 bits of accuracy and 380ns conversion speed. ADI’s previous motor controller platform was based on ...

CommAgility’s AMC-4C6678 Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) DSP board has four TMS320C6678 fixed- and floating-point octal core DSPs from Texas Instruments running at 1.25GHz. The total aggregated performance is 640GFLOPS and 1,280GMACS. Intended for image sensor processing and stepper control, the AMC-4C6678 has I/O to support the 32 DSP cores. PCI Express and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces use on-board switches for maximum ...