New TMS320C6452 Broadens TI's DSP Portfolio Delivering 2x the Channels Per Dollar for High Performance Applications

New TMS320C6452 Broadens TI's DSP Portfolio Delivering 2x the Channels Per Dollar for High Performance Applications

October 16, 2007

TI also Expands Roadmap with its C6455 1.2-GHz, Fastest
Single Core DSP for Telecom Infrastructure, Medical and
Emerging Applications


    HOUSTON, Oct. 16 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Designers of
telecom access infrastructure equipment can now double the
number of VoIP and conferencing channels per dollar,
lowering system cost and power while boosting overall
performance. Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:
TXN) today announced the availability of the
high-performance, cost-effective TMS320C6452 digital signal
processor (DSP) designed to optimize price and performance
for today's process intensive multi-channel infrastructure
and medical imaging systems. Simultaneously, TI has
strengthened its performance leadership position by
announcing that the TMS320C6455 DSP at 1.2-GHz is the
world's fastest single core DSP. For more information on
the C6452 and C6455 DSPs, see http://www.ti.com/C6452and55
.

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    "Over the years, TI's C6000(TM) DSP platform has
proven to be reliable, cost effective and easy to
use," said Simon Chouldjian, VP of hardware
engineering, AltiGen. "TI continually improves its
C6000 DSPs with higher speeds and more efficient
instruction sets. With the high-performance products and
great support AltiGen has received during the product
development lifecycle, it is easy to see why we are
committed to leveraging TI's roadmap."

    C6452 DSP Key Customer Benefits

    With a more than 30 percent price reduction over TI's
popular TMS320C6415T DSPs, the new code compatible 900 MHz
C6452 DSP allows designers to quickly and easily migrate
their designs from the widely deployed C641x based
products. Therefore, this broad base of customers can
benefit from the advanced communications peripherals,
expanded memory, heightened performance and cost benefits
of the new C6452 device. 

    Based on TI's enhanced TMS320C64x+(TM) core, the C6452
DSP delivers double the L1 cache memory and 40 percent more
L2 cache than the C6415T, giving customers more headroom to
easily add differentiating features to their designs. The
C6452 DSP also includes two gigabit Ethernet MAC ports and
one gigabit switch, which greatly improves the efficiency
of multi-chip designs by automatically monitoring the data
stream to ensure that only the appropriate packets consume
DSP performance.  Additionally, the device is equipped with
a Telecom Serial Interface Port (TSIP), providing a seamless
connection to common telecom serial data streams, ultimately
improving performance while increasing robustness and
flexibility.
  
    -- Twice the channels per dollar -- Increasing channel
density is 
       critical for infrastructure designs since, in most
instances, rack 
       space is fixed. The C6452 DSP's 900 MHz clock rate,
expanded 
       memory, advanced peripherals and ability to be
easily daisy-chained 
       using the two SGMII (Serial Gigabit Media
Independent Interface) 
       ports gives system-level designers the building
blocks needed to 
       increase channel density. The C6452 DSP's lower
price compared 
       to the C6415T DSP, plus system software from third
parties such as 
       Adaptive Digital Technologies, enables twice the
channels per 
       dollar for echo cancellation, conferencing and
VoIP/G.PAK applications.

    -- Reduced application bottlenecks -- The C6452 DSP has
two SGMII 
       Ethernet MAC ports and a gigabit switch to enable
each individual 
       DSP in the system to process only those packets
associated with 
       that DSP's function. The SGMII is a widely used
technology for 
       connecting high-speed Ethernet devices at the MAC
level. TI's 
       switch adds a decision gate that can, for example,
be used to 
       distinguish between voice and data traffic. If a
specific DSP on 
       the card is dedicated entirely to voice processing,
it blocks data 
       traffic from entering, which makes much more
effective use of its 
       processing bandwidth.

    -- Enhanced IO peripherals and more on-chip memory than
the C6415T 
       DSP -- The C6452 DSP's 66-MHz PCI interface has
double the data 
       rate. Similarly, the DDR2 interface doubles the
external memory 
       bandwidth. L1 instruction and data caches are
doubled to 32 Kbytes. 
       There is a 40 percent increase in the L2 cache size.


    Independent Verification:  TI's C6455 DSP is World's
Fastest

    TI is committed to investing in its high performance
roadmap and is expanding its DSP portfolio with the
introduction of its 1.2-GHz TMS320C6455 DSP.  The C6455 at
1.2-GHz is available at the previous 1-GHz price, giving
developers a significant performance boost at no additional
cost. The results of Berkeley Design Technology, Inc.'s
(BDTI) benchmark analysis of the C6455 device placed it
atop all other single core programmable DSPs for speed with
a BDTImark2000TM score of 13170.  Because BDTI
Benchmarks(TM) measure performance on a collection of
algorithms, they provide performance expectations for
real-world applications and are the most widely used
digital signal processing benchmarks in the world. 

    For the most processing-intensive applications
requiring the highest performance and
processor-to-processor communication, the C6455 DSP
combines high bandwidth peripheral integration (gigabit
Ethernet MAC), Serial RapidIO (sRIO) and increased memory
(2MB of L2 memory) into one single device. 

    Pricing and Availability

    Customers can now place orders for the TMS320C6452 DSP,
starting at $94 at 720MHz in 10Ku quantities from TI. The
highly integrated device is packaged in a 19 ¡Á 19 mm,
361-lead BGA (ball grid array) packages.  Order entry is
also open for the C6452 DSP evaluation module (EVM), priced
at $1,295.  The 1.2-GHz C6455 DSP is now available for $245
in 10Ku from TI.  Order entry is open for the 1.2-GHz C6455
DSP starter kit priced at $495.  For more information,
please visit http://www.ti.com/C6452and55 .

    For more information see:
    TI DSP Third Party Network:  http://www.ti.com/3P
    Berkeley Design Technology, Inc.:  http://www.bdti.com
    Serial RapidIO Trade Association: 
http://www.RapidIO.org

    About Texas Instruments

    Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP
and analog technologies to meet our customers' real world
signal processing requirements.  In addition to
Semiconductor, the company includes the Educational &
Productivity Solutions business.  TI is headquartered in
Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales
operations in more than 25 countries.

    Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock
Exchange under the symbol TXN.  More information is located
on the World Wide Web at http://www.ti.com .

    Trademarks

    TMS320C64x+ and C6000 are trademarks of Texas
Instruments.  All other trademarks and registered
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.


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