Processor
Revisiting Supercomputer Architectures
The chronology of high performance computing can be divided into “ages” based on the predominant systems architectures for the period. Starting in the late 1970s vector processors dominated HPC. By the end of the next decade massively parallel processors were able to make a play for market leader. For the last half of the 1990s, [...]
Octasic Introduces New Multi-Core DSP Device for Wireless Baseband
MONTREAL, Canada – June 21, 2010 – Octasic Inc., a leading innovator of media processing and wireless solutions, today announced the industry’s most efficient multi-core DSP devices for basestation PHY and MAC. The OCT2224W is part of Octasic’s latest family of multi-core DSP solutions (see related announcement). Delivering three times [...]
CEA-Leti Unveils Low-Power Reconfigurable Multicore Chip for Software-Defined Radio and Cognitive Radio
GRENOBLE, France–(BUSINESS WIRE)– CEA-Leti announced today that it has developed a digital baseband circuit for software-defined-radio and cognitive-radio applications that features less than 50 microseconds (µs) for full reconfiguration and [...]
Cognovo launches Software Defined Modem solution for LTE handsets
Cambridge, UK – 17 June 2010 – Cognovo today announces its Software Defined Modem
(SDM) platform designed to significantly reduce cost, size and design complexity for developers
of cellular handsets and other wireless enabled consumer electronic products. The SDM platform
is already under evaluation at leading handset OEMs who are seeing for themselves how
Cognovo’s software centric design flow [...]
Imec’s cognitive baseband radio to support 4G and broadband access to multiple services
Leuven, Belgium – June 8, 2010 – Imec introduces a cognitive baseband radio (COBRA) architecture targeting 4G requirements at up to 1Gbit/s throughput and multiple asynchronous concurrent streams (for instance simultaneous digital broadcasting reception and high-speed internet access). The low-cost, flexible architecture answers a new trend in wireless communication where [...]
ARM boosted startup with Belgian DSP
The EE Times has a nice article on Cognovo.
In November 2009, shortly after ARM (Cambridge, England) said it would close its DSP development operation in Heverlee, Belgium, Cognovo took on approximately half ARM’s Belgian contigent, according to a local report. In addition, ARM provided the vector signal processing IP developed there [...]
Multimode vector radio dismantles barriers to SDR software portability
My friends at Sigmatix and Octoscope have a nice follow-on EE Times article about Vector SDRs. The original article (mentioning Sandbridge) is here.
As an excerpt: To ensure the cost reduction of SDR platforms via economies of scale, software portability across processors must be achieved. The new generation of SDR, called multimode vector radio (MVR), offers that [...]
Octasic Announces Second Generation DSP Core For Cutting-Edge Wireless and Media Gateway Applications
Octasic provides Opus2 DSP Core Development Environment for evaluation by 3G/4G wireless product designers…
MONTREAL, Canada – February 8, 2010 – Octasic Inc., a leading innovator of media processing and wireless solutions, today announced its second generation Opus2 DSP core, a high-performance, ultra-low power, asynchronous DSP architecture optimized for baseband processing and multimedia transcoding. To facilitate [...]
Renesas : Development systems allows re-configurable communication
ASOCS and Renesas Technology Europe today announced availability of a GSM/GPRS/EDGE communication development system (CDS). Comprising of an ASOCS MP100 MultiComms processor and a Renesas Technology DRACO3 RF subsystem, the development system allows handset designers to rapidly prototype combined cellular and Internet products.