Texas Instruments has introduced the latest DSP in its TMS320C66x DSP series, and has also enhanced its TMS320C6670 radio SoC. Based on the company's KeyStone multi-core architecture, the C6671 DSP offers fixed-and floating-point performance on a single device. The DSP offers pin- and software-compatible platforms across the company's TMS320C6672, TMS320C6674 and TMS320C6678 DSPs to develop products for mission critical, public safety and defence, medical and high-end imaging, test and automation, and core networking applications. The C6670 radio SoC has accelerators for software-defined radios, public safety and emerging broadband radio systems. The SoC includes a multi-standard bit rate co-processor to accelerate physical layer processing for LTE and WiMAX. The company has updated its multi-core software and tools that includes a free multi-core software development kit, and Linux software.
