Signal Processing DesignLine Blog
Welcome to the changing face of digital signal processing
Patrick Mannion
7/29/2010 7:14 AM EDT
The world of DSP has undergone a massive shift, from the use of well-defined, math-oriented architectures to a more holistic approach that looks at the problem and selects any combination of available architectures, DSP, RISC or FPGA, to solve it. We've changed our approach too, to help you navigate these new waters more effectively.
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Life, attachments and how to smash a CRT
Patrick Mannion
5/7/2010 4:44 PM EDT
It’s funny how you never realize how much something has woven itself into the fabric of your life until you sit down and try and figure out the best way to smash it to smithereens.
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ReneCardenas
Patrick, your sentiments are shared, I have been thinking how to say farewell to my 15+years 27" ...
TI's multicore SoC: Right notes, ringing hollow
Patrick Mannion
2/17/2010 6:58 PM EST
While the new multicore system on chip (SoC) signal-processing architecture announced by Texas Instruments this week at Mobile World Congress hits all the right notes with respect to what's needed in next-generation basestation designs, it rings a bit hollow given how sketchy the architectural details remain when contrasted with more 'real' announcements from the likes of Freescale.
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The SoC in 2020: Advances to redefine how we live
Bill Witowsky
12/3/2009 5:02 PM EST
In this fourth installment of TI's 2020 Vision series, Senior Fellow Bill Witowsky (retired) explains why the inherent functionality of future high-performance SoCs will be defined by software in order to facilitate the repurposing required to offset their development costs.
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Magic microphone: All smoke, no mirrors
Patrick Mannion
11/19/2009 11:32 AM EST
To get around the dynamic range issues of current microphone pickups, Schwartz Engineering and Design has devised a laser-based pickup that detects voice-induced 'distortions' in a flowing stream of smoke and that then relies on proprietary digital signal processing to translate those distortions into audio. And it works!
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WKetel
This is indeed interesting. What will be far more interesting is to see how the concept would ...
The path to money in medical systems design
Patrick Mannion
9/20/2009 8:24 PM EDT
Between government stimulus packages, an aging population, exploding healthcare costs and increasing need for better remote diagnostics, it's understandable that engineers looking for the next big opportunity would look up and cry: "Thars gold in them thar [medical] hills." But not so fast.
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Chip vendors making VCs redundant
Patrick Mannion
9/11/2009 7:26 AM EDT
The next time you have a great idea for an end product, you should look at bit more closely at your choice of IC: the vendor-as-partner model can do more to realize your idea than any venture capitalist or angel investor ever could--without eating into your long-term profits.
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From 2009 to 2020: A history of developments in programmability
Alan Gatherer
8/28/2009 5:34 PM EDT
Predictions come easy, but from the demise of FPGAs to the emergence of 32-core processors, DSPs are showing some strong trends and I think it is possible to divine what will happen in the next few years as we move towards the next order of magnitude increase in computational efficiency.
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shirazkaleel
The following are some of the mis-steps taken in the design of computer architectures that need to ...
Old and new: Marconi's Irish roots
Patrick Mannion
8/17/2009 11:09 AM EDT
In a remote region of Ireland last week I happened upon a monument to Guglielmo Marconi's first commercial wireless transmission: between Rathlin Island and Ballycastle in North Antrim on July 6th. 1898.
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Processor architectures: Where will we be in 2020?
Gene Frantz
7/22/2009 5:11 PM EDT
In the first of a series of "2020 Vision" forward-looking perspectives by Texas Instruments' leading visionaries, TI Fellow Gene Frantz looks at where processors will be by then.
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