Texas - High-performance processors deliver industry's best power efficiency
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Availability of the industry's most power efficient, six-core DSP (digital
signal processor), the TMS320C6472, has been announced by Texas Instruments
(TI). It targets process-intensive applications requiring low power
consumption. To help evaluate the performance of the C6472 devices more
easily and affordably, TI is also offering a multicore processors evaluation
module (EVM), the TMDXEVM6472.
With the C6472, TI has broken the power performance barrier by fully
optimizing the device for applications where performance per Watt is a
critical requirement. The C6472 DSP offers the lowest power consumption with
the highest processing performance of any multicore DSP with the total of
3GHz performance in the market, performing at 3.7W performance and
0.15mW/MIPS.
The power-efficient C6472 is designed to support applications that drive
many channels, demand maximum performance density and for which designers
must have access to sophisticated functions. Additionally, many applications
utilizing the C6472 will not require any external memory, further improving
the power profile and cost effectiveness of the device.
The devices are seen as ideal for markets such as high-end industrial, test
and measurement, communication, medical imaging, high-end imaging and video,
and blade server. TI provides extensive support for the C6472, including an
evaluation module, robust software libraries and a third-party ecosystem, to
further facilitate the process of writing code that runs optimally on
multicore devices, says the company.
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