| | Ultra-low-power DSP design... | | Here's how IMEC built a sub-100uW DSP by tuning its algorithm, processor architecture, and memory system, as well as through clock gating. The article presents detailed power results for each optimization.
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| | Educated Guessing Games... | |
Engineers can't know everything, but with the approximation techniques described here, we can fill in the blanks.
Engineering is often a guessing game. Radar, high quality audio, precision motion, robotics-wherever we depend on processing ... |
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| | Special Report: Choosing a DSP... | |
Once upon a time, digital signal processors were used only as coprocessors in signal processing applications and programmed mostly in assembly. Today, DSPs are used in almost every application domain. From the nitty to the gritty, here'... |
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| | 'Hybrid' processor targets 'by-wire' autos... | |
BOSTON, MASS. - Motorola, Inc. today (Monday, Sept. 22nd) will unveil a "hybrid processor" with an electronic architecture that could serve as the brain for the auto industry's next-generation, by-wire products.
Known as the 56F8300 hyb... |
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| | Fuzzy logic does real time on the DSP... | |
Fuzzy logic doesn't require strange hardware or new programming languages, just a different approach to set membership. Plenty of physical systems, from elevators to boilers, can benefit from fuzzy-logic programming. This article explores pro... |
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| | MCUs or DSPs: Which is in (Motor) Control?... | |
Quick!—name the world's most popular microprocessor chip. If you said "Pentium" you're wrong. Way wrong. Fact is, Intel's famous Pentium family makes up barely 2% of the world's microprocessors. The other 98% are all embedd... |
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| | DSCs boost automotive electric motor control... | |
Mechanically actuated automotive systems, such as power steering and fuel and water pumps, are being replaced with systems that utilize electric motor technology. Consequently, the presence of semiconductors in automobiles is increasing geomet... |
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