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News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) | Subject: TMS320C6410 and TMS320C6413
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 22 December 2004
High-performance DSPs hit new price
point
Texas Instruments has entered full volume production of two new high performance digital signal processors, the TMS320C6410 and TMS320C6413.
Texas Instruments has entered full volume production of two new high performance digital signal processors, the TMS320C6410 and TMS320C6413 Available at breakthrough price points and targeting packet-switched telecomms, media gateways and other cost-sensitive, high performance applications, the new devices further strengthen TI's high-performance roadmap in the DSP market with additional memory, peripheral and lower price options
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The C64x generation has long offered leadership performance".
"We are excited to be shipping in volume production even lower entry pricing to the high performance class of C64x DSP applications", says Thomas Brooks, TMS320C6000 Marketing Manager, TI.
"Devices like the C6410 and C6413 DSPs are bringing our customers higher performance at a lower cost and enabling developers to lower the cost of telecom, media gateways, medical, industrial, office and photo lab equipment, making them more competitive in the market".
The C6410, priced at $17.95, offers a substantial price/performance ratio of 89MMACs (million multiply-accumulates) per dollar, whereas the C6413, priced at $28.95, offers 69MMACs per dollar at a clock rate of 500MHz.
This is a 6x per dollar improvement over previous C64x devices.
Integrated on-chip are two standard McBSPs for multichannel clocked serial communication, two audio serial ports compatible with IIS and common stereo codecs, a 16/32bit microprocessor host port interface, and two IIC control serial ports.
Also included is an on-chip oscillator that lowers overall system cost by enabling developers to use a lower cost crystal in place of an external oscillator.
Two development boards are available today to allow designers ease of development on their C64x DSP designs, the new C6413 evaluation module (EVM) and the TMS320C6416T DSP starter kit (DSK), codeveloped with Spectrum Digital.
The DSK contains a C6416-based development board, easy to use examples, tutorials, TI's DSP/BIOS operating system, and off-the-shelf algorithms ready to run from the TI DSP third party network.
The C6413 EVM board contains the 500MHz TMS320C6413, ample onboard memory and interfaces through a standard JT interface to the development system.
The C6416T, C6413 and C6410 DSPs are 100% software code compatible along with the rest of the entire C6000 platform, which enables developers to achieve faster time to market for new designs.
With these two development platforms, designers have two excellent ways to begin development of key pieces of the system, specifically algorithms, control code and initial software system integration.
The C6410 and C6413 DSPs are supported by TI's eXpressDSP software and development tools including the Code Composer Studio integrated development environment (IDE), enabling faster time to market for their real-time embedded applications.
The C64x generation is also backed by an extensive third-party network offering application-specific algorithms for many applications including specific algorithms for the major voice and audio standards.
The TMS320C6410 running at 400MHz with 160Kbyte total memory is $17.95 (10,000 units), and the 500MHz TMS320C6413 has 288Kbyte total memory and costs $28.95 (10,000 units).
Both are packaged in a 23 x 23mm flip-chip BGA package (288 pins, four rows, 1.0mm BGA pitch), which allows four layer board routing.
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