Announcing
the 5th Edition of BDTI's Flagship Report
Berkeley Design
Technology, Inc. and MicroDesign Resources Present a Unique Report:
Read the Only Independent, In-Depth Analysis and Comparison of
DSP Processors.
Buyer's Guide to DSP Processors, 2001 Edition
is the single most authoritative body of information on processors
for DSP applications. BDTI's experienced staff dissects and analyzes
nearly every major commercial DSP processor, devoting nearly 40
pages of analysis to each. We use a newly expanded and revised
suite of independent benchmarks to realistically evaluate the
performance and cost-effectiveness of each processor.
If
you need to select a DSP processor, you should have...Buyer's
Guide to DSP Processors, 2001 Edition
An independent evaluation
of the most popular processors used in DSP
New in Buyer's
Guide 2001:
Buyer's
Guide 2001 is a comprehensive technical report containing
independent analyses and comparisons of 17 families of programmable
digital signal processors. Whether you're an engineer who needs
to choose a processor for a new design, or a processor vendor
who needs to understand the competition, this is the resource
for you. Buyer's Guide 2001 provides the only independent
benchmark analysis and comparisons of today's DSP processors.
For a complete
outline of this report, click here.
BDTI's benchmark
analysis is based on the following metrics:
Buyer's
Guide 2001 is the first comprehensive application of the updated
and expanded version of the BDTI Benchmarks™. The BDTI Benchmarks
are a set of twelve benchmark functions specifically designed
and implemented to measure and compare processor performance in
DSP tasks. Each function has been painstakingly implemented and
hand optimized in assembly code for each of the processors, and
the performance measured under rigorously controlled conditions.
The results are reliable, impartially determined metrics that
enable you to make an informed choice.
The updated
version of the BDTI Benchmarks includes: real block FIR filter,
complex block FIR filter, single-sample FIR filter, LMS adaptive
filter, IIR filter, vector add, vector maximum, dot product, Viterbi
decoder, bit unpack, control code, and FFT.
Benefit from BDTI's
Expert Analysis
Benchmark results are just the beginning of the
information in Buyer's Guide 2001. Based on the benchmark
data, BDTI provides complete and detailed analysis of what's behind
the performance. Buyer's Guide 2001 explains the architectural
features that determine how a processor will perform in various
kinds of tasks and highlights the differences between architectural
approaches.
Buyer's
Guide 2001 also gives the benefit of BDTI's wide-ranging and
hands-on experience with processors. BDTI doesn't hold back from
giving its honest, independent opinion on features, programmability,
development environment, documentation, user support, and other
factors critical to the successful use of a processor.
Each processor
in Buyer's Guide 2001 is subjected to BDTI's rigorous evaluation
of:
- Architecture
Understand key architectural differences.
Performance is important, to be sure, but architectural differences
are critical for understanding how well a processor will work
in a particular application. BDTI's expert analysts provide
insight into a processor's important features and limitations.
- Performance
What really makes the difference in performance?
Buyer's Guide 2001 uncovers the factors that influence
performance benchmarks.
- Applications
Learn the requirements of DSP tasks in key applications.
Buyer's Guide 2001 presents profiling information on
important DSP applications and tasks, identifying the critical
resource-hungry portions of key applications.
- Price
and Packaging
Find out details that impact your parts costs.
Buyer's Guide 2001 gives pricing and packaging information
that always affects the bottom line in any design.
- Development
Tools and Software
Get expert evaluation of development tools.
No matter how great an architecture may be, usable tools and
the availability of software libraries are vital to the success
of an implementation effort. BDTI's engineers give you their
evaluation, based on hands-on experience.
Processors covered
in Buyer's Guide 2001
Analog Devices
ADSP-21xx
Analog Devices ADSP-2106x
Analog Devices ADSP-2116x
Analog Devices ADSP-219x
Analog Devices TigerSHARC*
Lucent Technologies DSP16xxx
Motorola DSP563xx
Motorola DSP568xx
Motorola DSP56800E
Motorola MSC8101 (StarCore SC140)
Texas Instruments TMS320C2xxx*
Texas Instruments TMS320C3x*
Texas Instruments TMS320C54xx
Texas Instruments TMS320C55xx
Texas Instruments TMS320C62xx
Texas Instruments TMS320C64xx
Texas Instruments TMS320C67xx
*BDTI
Benchmark™ results are not available for these processors.
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is a technical services company focused on independent analysis
of DSP technology and development of optimized DSP software. BDTI
technical services include:
- Independent
evaluations of DSP products, processors, and technology
- DSP software
development and optimization
- Custom
benchmark development and implementation
The authors
of this report are members of BDTI's expert technical staff, and
all have extensive experience developing application software
for DSP processors. The BDTI team has evaluated and benchmarked
over 50 different processor architectures.
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Inc., please visit their web site at www.bdti.com.
