Philips DSP. I think this is a small DSP, such as for cell phones, rather than a video DSP.
techweb.com
Philips Readies DSP Introduction
(08/26/98; 12:22 p.m. ET)
By Ron Wilson, EE Times
Philips Semiconductors is preparing to publicly launch
R.E.A.L., its long-rumored digital-signal-processing
architecture, at the DSP World/ICSPAT conference in
Toronto next month, sources told EE Times.
The company has quietly assembled considerable
in-house DSP expertise, and is said to have already
applied the architecture on internal projects.
R.E.A.L. (the periods reportedly are necessary to avoid
trademark infringement) is an umbrella term for two
separate DSP families, one a conventional
single-multiply-accumulator (MAC) architecture, and
the other a dual-MAC approach.
Both architectures are said to be highly configurable to
fit the DSP core's hardware features and power
consumption to the applications code planned for a
project. The flexibility apparently includes both choices
in core configuration and the ability to combine the core
with a range of peripherals to reduce chip count and
off-chip signals. The choice of the specific configuration
is made during chip manufacturing, however, not in the
field. The parts do not include FPGAs or other such
field-programmable resources, sources said. |
