DSP ICs, evaluation cards speed multimedia designs: evaluation tools prove essential to meeting design schedules. (digital signal processing integrated circuits) (includes related article on two levels of standards efforts) (Products & Careers Edition) (Buyers Guide)

EDN, February, 1993 by Doherty, Richard

Evaluation tools prove essential to meeting design schedules Recent programmable digital-signal-processing (DSP) ICs and dedicated-function processors let designers craft multimedia systems at a pace unthinkable just three years ago. Would-be multimedia designers, however, must consider a broad variety of functions and implementation nuances.

To help engineers meet accelerated designs schedules, multimedia-chip suppliers have developed new prototyping cards and forged software alliances to speed time-to-product. The types of device that constitute multimedia roughly divide along functional lines: video, audio, graphics, processing, and communications. Clearly, the need to quickly handle very diverse data types characterizes multimedia. In practice,...

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