Digital signal processors

Cadence Tensilica Xtensa Processors Address Most Stringent Automotive Functional Safety Requirements with Full ISO 26262 Compliance to ASIL-D

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Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Tensilica Xtensa processors with FlexLock are well suited for the automotive market and tailored for AI, vision, radar, lidar, audio, vehicle-to-everything (V2X), and control applications.

Key Points: 
  • Tensilica Xtensa processors with FlexLock are well suited for the automotive market and tailored for AI, vision, radar, lidar, audio, vehicle-to-everything (V2X), and control applications.
  • Cadence Tensilica FlexLock processors optimized for automotive applications are among the first in the industry to achieve full compliance with ASIL-D functional safety standards, said Wolfgang Ruf, head of functional safety for semiconductors at SGS-TV Saar.
  • SoC designers are assured that their designs using functional safety-certified Tensilica processor IP can achieve compliance with the automotive industrys stringent safety-critical requirements.
  • We are pleased that Cadence is adding important functional safety mechanisms such as its FlexLock dual-core lockstep capability to its Tensilica IP product line.

New Cadence Tensilica FloatingPoint DSP Family Delivers Scalable Performance for a Broad Range of Compute-Intensive Applications

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Thursday, June 17, 2021
Key Points: 
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210617005326/en/
    The highly scalable Cadence Tensilica FloatingPoint DSP family offers system-on-chip designers peace of mind when designing a solution that meets their power, performance and area budget.
  • (Graphic: Business Wire)
    The new family is comprised of four cores: the Tensilica FloatingPoint KP1 DSP, the Tensilica FloatingPoint KP6 DSP, the Tensilica FloatingPoint KQ7 DSP and the Tensilica FloatingPoint KQ8 DSP.
  • The scalable Tensilica FloatingPoint DSP family provides optimal PPA for these floating-point computations, regardless of the application.
  • The Tensilica FloatingPoint KP1 DSP, Tensilica FloatingPoint KP6 DSP, Tensilica FloatingPoint KQ7 DSP and Tensilica FloatingPoint KQ8 DSP are all in general availability now.

SHARC Energy to Ship Two Piranha T15’s for Seniors’ Living Development

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Wednesday, June 9, 2021

These two units represent the 2nd and 3rd installation of a PIRANHA system in Alberta.

Key Points: 
  • These two units represent the 2nd and 3rd installation of a PIRANHA system in Alberta.
  • This order was made thanks to SHARC Energys partner Riada Sales Inc. , who is part of the Companys manufacturer representative network that market and sell SHARC Energy technology across North America.
  • Sales in a market like Alberta where natural gas is dominant can prove to be difficult for a clean energy technology like ours, said SHARC Energy CEO Lynn Mueller.
  • SHARC and PIRANHA systems have 25 installations in progress or operating in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia.

Cadence Extends Popular Tensilica Vision and AI DSP IP Product Line with New DSPs Targeting High-End and Always-On Applications

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Thursday, April 22, 2021

(Graphic: Business Wire)\nThere has been strong customer interest in the Vision Q8 and Vision P1 DSPs, with several evaluations underway.

Key Points: 
  • (Graphic: Business Wire)\nThere has been strong customer interest in the Vision Q8 and Vision P1 DSPs, with several evaluations underway.
  • The new DSPs round out Cadence\xe2\x80\x99s comprehensive portfolio of proven vision and AI DSPs, offering customers even greater design flexibility with best-in-class technology.
  • Like the rest of the Tensilica Vision DSP family, the Vision Q8 and Vision P1 DSPs support Tensilica Instruction Extension (TIE) language, allowing customers to customize the instruction set.
  • We look forward to leveraging the Tensilica Vision Q8 and Vision P1 DSPs and further solidifying our collaboration with Cadence.\xe2\x80\x9d\nThe Tensilica Vision Q8 and Vision P1 DSPs support Cadence\xe2\x80\x99s Intelligent System Design\xe2\x84\xa2 strategy, enabling design excellence.

MulticoreWare Inc. Joins Analog Devices, Inc.’s (ADI) Alliances Partner Program

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Tuesday, March 16, 2021

MulticoreWare has been providing optimized solutions for various processing platforms with our expertise in Heterogeneous Computing, Micro-Architecture aware optimizations combined with Deep Neural networks expertise.

Key Points: 
  • MulticoreWare has been providing optimized solutions for various processing platforms with our expertise in Heterogeneous Computing, Micro-Architecture aware optimizations combined with Deep Neural networks expertise.
  • Blackfin processors leverage the optimizations implemented by MulticoreWare will provide solutions for a variety of applications: video surveillance, robotics, and real-time security.
  • The collaboration between ADI and MulticoreWare, will open doors to target new opportunities for applications involving Human Behaviour Detection and Recognition, Face Detection.
  • ADIs Alliances partner program offers designers worldwide access to a broad spectrum of ADI technologies and industry expertise.

Analog Devices’ Battery Management System ICs and Automotive Audio Bus Power Volvo’s All Electric XC40 SUV

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Monday, February 22, 2021

Analog Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADI) and Volvo Cars today announced that Volvo Cars first pure electric SUVthe Volvo XC40 Rechargewill feature ADIs integrated circuits (ICs) that support the battery management system (BMS) and Automotive Audio Bus (A2B).

Key Points: 
  • Analog Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADI) and Volvo Cars today announced that Volvo Cars first pure electric SUVthe Volvo XC40 Rechargewill feature ADIs integrated circuits (ICs) that support the battery management system (BMS) and Automotive Audio Bus (A2B).
  • Furthermore, audio solutions built upon Analog Devices A2B and SHARC audio processor not only deliver an immersive cabin experience, but also support the sustainability trend.
  • Electric vehicles are the future of Automotive, and the market is growing significantly with up to 10 million full electric vehicles per year expected by 2025, said Patrick Morgan, Vice President, Automotive at Analog Devices.
  • Automotive Audio Bus is a registered trademark of Analog Devices, Inc.
    SHARC is a registered trademark of Analog Devices, Inc.
    All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

CEVA Extends its Leadership in High Performance Scalable Sensor Hub DSPs with 2nd Generation SensPro Family

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Tuesday, January 12, 2021

The SensPro2 family has been expanded to include seven vector DSP cores, scaling in power and performance.

Key Points: 
  • The SensPro2 family has been expanded to include seven vector DSP cores, scaling in power and performance.
  • The new entry-level cores address DSP and AI workloads requiring up to 1 TOPS AI performance and the high-end cores reach 3.2 TOPS.
  • "Our new SensPro2 family of power-efficient sensor hub DSPs offers scalable performance, multiple precisions and high utilization for the increasingly complex and diverse AI/sensor workloads of contextually-aware devices," said Ran Snir, Vice President of R&D at CEVA.
  • The 2nd generation SensPro DSP family consists of:
    The SP100 and SP50 DSPs, with 128 and 64 INT8 MACS, respectively.

DSP Group Unveils DBM10 Low-Power Edge AI/ML SoC with Dedicated Neural Network Inference Processor

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Thursday, January 7, 2021

The SoC comprises a digital signal processor (DSP) and the companys nNetLite neural network (NN) processor, both optimized for low-power voice and sensor processing in battery operated devices.

Key Points: 
  • The SoC comprises a digital signal processor (DSP) and the companys nNetLite neural network (NN) processor, both optimized for low-power voice and sensor processing in battery operated devices.
  • The DBM10 features an open platform approach with a comprehensive software framework.
  • DSP Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSPG) is a global leader in wireless communications and voice processing chipsets and algorithms for a wide range of smart-enabled devices.
  • Building upon our core competencies in the area of voice processing, DSP Group invests heavily in innovation for the smart future.

OmniVision Announces World’s First Dedicated Driver Monitoring System ASIC With Integrated AI Neural Processing Unit, Image Signal Processor and DDR3 Memory

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Monday, January 4, 2021

The OAX8000 uses a stacked-die architecture to provide the industrys only DMS processor with on-chip DDR3 SDRAM memory (1GB).

Key Points: 
  • The OAX8000 uses a stacked-die architecture to provide the industrys only DMS processor with on-chip DDR3 SDRAM memory (1GB).
  • This is also the only dedicated DMS processor to integrate a neural processing unit (NPU) and image signal processor (ISP), which provides dedicated processing speeds up to 1.1 trillion operations per second for eye gaze and eye tracking algorithms.
  • According to Yole Dveloppement, the accelerated market drive for DMS is expected to generate a 56% CAGR between 2020 and 2025.
  • By focusing the design of our OAX8000 ASIC on entry-level DMS, we were able to create the automotive industrys most optimized solution.

Retune DSP's Wake Word Engine Now Available for CEVA Audio/Voice DSPs

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Monday, December 21, 2020

CEVA and Retune DSP are already engaged with a lead customer, deploying this collaborative solution in an upcoming smart home device.

Key Points: 
  • CEVA and Retune DSP are already engaged with a lead customer, deploying this collaborative solution in an upcoming smart home device.
  • VoiceSpot is a high-performance embedded wake word and small vocabulary ASR engine, enabling voice-wake and command and control on memory-constrained, battery-operated edge devices.
  • "CEVA's wide-reaching success in powering intelligent edge devices with their industry-leading audio/voice DSPs makes them an ideal partner for our VoiceSpot wake word engine," said Ulrik Kjems, CEO of Retune DSP.
  • "Our small memory footprint solution delivers outstanding voice-wake performance when implemented on the CEVA DSPs.