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DSP design flows in FPGAs: Strategies for designing DSP applications for FPGAs

Digital signal processing (DSP) occurs in communications, audio, and multimedia devices, imaging and medical equipment, smart antennas, automotive electronics, MP3 players, radar and sonar, and ...
EDN

Processing options

The number of options for choosing the best processor for embedded-system designs continues to increase. In addition to microprocessors, microcontrollers, and DSPs (digital-signal processors), several ...
EDN

Using Serial RapidIO for FPGA co-processing

For more on Serial RapidIO, see The RapidIO High-Speed Interconnect: A Technical Overview, Easy multiprocessor design with sRIO and MSGQ, and Partitioning video across multiple DSPs and FPGAs. Today's ...
Electronic Design

Silicon Convergence and the Future of System Design

FPGAs are looking superficially more and more like ASSPs and microcontrollers and are actually enhancing their ability to allow system developers to differentiate in hardware. For system designers, ...
Electronic Design

Digital ICs: Microcontrollers & Microprocessors

Embedded Processors Mean Variety THIS YEAR, MORE NEW PROCESSOR VARIANTS THAN EVER WILL BE released. But don't expect any really new processor architectures, except AMD's (www.amd.com) 64-bit ...
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Xilinx executes on FPGA processor leadership strategy, forms new embedded processing division

SAN JOSE, Calif., September 6, 2004 - Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced the formation of a new Embedded Processing Division that combines the Company's domain expertise and comprehensive ...