Texas Instruments Ships Industry's First DSP at 1 GHz

Texas Instruments announced shipment of the industry’s first 1 GHz digital signal processor (DSP). The device, which leverages new 90 nm process technology, provides eight GigaMACs on 8-bit data for video and imaging applications or four GigaMACs on the 16-bit data common to speech and audio applications. TI said its new performance benchmark opens the way to applications ranging from adaptive antenna arrays to smart cars to artificial vision, while increasing the bandwidth and channel capacity of existing real- time applications, such as wireless base stations, IP-based video, high-speed broadband networking, medical diagnostics and radar. For example, a single 1 GHz device can process eight channels of MPEG-2 video transrating, real-time D1 (720×480) resolution or 55 channels of GSM Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) speech coding in a wireless infrastructure application. http://www.ti.com