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News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) | Subject: TMS320C6413
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 29 April 2004
Benchmark success for new budget DSP
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The new TMS320C6413 digital signal processor has achieved an impressive nine Telemarks per dollar benchmark from the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium.
The new TMS320C6413 digital signal processor has achieved an impressive nine Telemarks per dollar benchmark from the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium The C6413 DSP targets packet-switched telecomms including video, data and voice over IP and other cost-sensitive, high performance applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Representing typical telecomms device tasks, the C6413 at 500MHz was evaluated using the EEMBC Telecom Benchmark suite.
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But the real benefits of this highly parallel architecture are demonstrated after employing C-level optimisations, where the score jumped to 263.3 Telemarks.
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Application-specific benchmarks, such as these by EEMBC, give customers additional insight in terms of how a given processor will perform in their specific system.
"TI continues its stellar achievements in the DSP space with the addition of the TMS320C6413, bringing high performance at a lower price point with the C64xT generation", said Markus Levy, President, EEMBC.
"Given the low price point, this new 500MHz chip provides excellent value when viewed in terms of both its out-of-the-box score and its C-level optimised score".
The 500MHz TMS320C6413 includes a foundation of eight parallel functional units in the DSP core, over 256Kbyte of on-chip high-speed memory and tailored telecomms peripherals, including two standard multichannel buffered serial ports, two audio serial ports compatible with IIS and common stereo codecs, two IIC control serial ports and three general 32bit timers to accelerate applications and processing of real-time data.
The 1mm ball pitch on the ball grid array (BGA) package facilitates four layer board routing to reduce manufacturing costs by enabling a lower number of electrical layers on the board.
The device also features an on-chip oscillator to lower overall system cost by enabling developers to use a sub-dollar external crystal in place of an external oscillator costing several dollars.
"EEMBC benchmarks have provided TI with a great opportunity to independently demonstrate the superb performance and value of our enhanced VLIW DSP core", said Jackie Brenner, DSP Technical Benchmarks Manager, TI.
"With the unbiased aid of EEMBC Certification Labs, these benchmark scores independently demonstrate to our customers the excellent price/performance value of the C6413 device for their applications".
The EEMBC Telecom Benchmarks Suite consists of five algorithms that represent device performance in real-world applications.
They include autocorrelation, fixed-point bit allocation, fixed-point complex fast Fourier transform, Viterbi GSM decoder, and convolutional encoder benchmarks for which individual scores with several data sets are rendered in iterations per second.
The 500MHz C6413 DSP costs $28.95 (10,000 units).
Samples are available now with full production slated for September 2004.
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