Selecting the right DSP for a particular application involves much more analysis than simply selecting the one that touts the highest clock speeds or the one that offers the most arithmetic resources.

Selecting the right DSP for a particular application involves much more analysis than simply selecting the one that touts the highest clock speeds or the one that offers the most arithmetic resources.

[Editor's note: This paper was presented at ESC Boston 2006. For more papers from this conference, see Embedded.com. Part 2 of this series explains how to maximize performance with loop unrolling and ...

N15/N15F are dual-issue superscalar AndesCore™ processors capable of delivering performance at 5.41 CoreMark/MHz, the highest among the same level products in the industry. N15/N15F comes ... The ...

The DesignWare ARC HS4x and HS4xD processor family from Synopsys is targeted at high performance embedded applications. Featuring five variants, each available in single, dual and quad core ...

Representing the first member of the VR7700 family of MIPS processors, the 64-bit VR7701 extends the company's superscalar architecture with an additional 256 KB of L2 cache and a DDR SDRAM controller ...

VIA has introduced its updated line of Nano processors, built for netbooks and all-in-one computers. The 3000 series promises a 20% performance boost over existing Nano CPUs while managing to reduce ...

LSI Logic has introduced the second generation of its ZSP superscalar digital signal processor architecture. The first core implementation based on the G2 architecture, the ZSP600 will be available ...

What then, is the major obstacle that is in the way of producing, say, 10GHz processors? For a start the Intel blog says heat is a problem but isn't the biggest hurdle that needs to be overcome to ...