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To: lbmiller2000 who wrote (9010)	3/24/2001 2:41:38 PM
From: lbmiller2000	Respond to of 197227

re: more on wireless from Texas Instruments' Annual report.. "OMAP: Making Next-Generation Wireless Real To make that dream real, TI has created the OMAP architecture, which establishes a platform for billions of mobile wireless devices to seamlessly interoperate and deliver rich media content on a wide variety of networks. 2.5-generation and 3rd-generation wireless are especially complex proportions because of the diversity of requirements. These include converged media (voice, audio, video, images and data), network protocols (GSM, IS95, GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, IS2000, etc.), Operating Systems (EPOC, WindowsCE, Palm, Linux, etc.), form factors (wireless, PDAs, digital still cameras, Internet Audio devices, wearable devices, etc.) and multiple networks (wide area, local area, home and personal area), as well as other current and potential applications that span the breadth of human creativity. For the near-term at least, the mobile Internet that 2.5G and 3G deliver will depend upon devices that can handle multiple protocols, manage widely varying content that flows through multiple networks and communicate with other devices without much intervention." "Finally, the next generations of wireless equipment must be backward-compatible with previous standards, and the devices must provide battery life that equals or exceeds what end users are accustomed to today. The OMAP architecture addresses all three of these requirements through a combination of software and a dual-core hardware architecture comprised of a DSP and RISC (reduced instruction set computer) processor. Not only will DSP technology handle modem functions to send and receive signals, but it also provides the horsepower for real-time signal-processing applications such as MPEG4 video, speech recognition and audio applications. Mapping these tasks to the DSP greatly reduces power consumption. For example, TI's new C55x DSP core for mobile devices will process a real-time videoconferencing applications while using less than half of its computational capability. That means more than 50 percent of the processing power still will be available to run other applications simultaneously."