Digital Signal Processors

Product Briefs

ConnX D2 Product Brief

545CK Product Brief

ConnX BBE16  Product Brief

ConnX SSP16 Product Brief

ConnX BSP3 Product Brief

ConnX Turbo16 Product Brief

ConnX BBE32UE Product Brief

ConnX BBE64 Product Brief

HiFi 2 Audio DSP Product Brief

White Papers

Cut DSP Development Time - Get High Performance From C, No Assembly Required

Optimizing a DSP Architecture for Wireless Baseband

A Designers Guide to HD Video Pre- and Post-Processing

Put Low-Power, Low-Overhead, High-Fidelity Digital Sound in Your Next ASIC or SOC

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Analyst Reports

Tensilica DSP Targets LTE Advanced - Microprocessor Report review of ConnX BBE64

Tensilica Plays Baseband - New ConnX Core Aims for Low-Power Wireless Communications - Microprocessor Report review of ConnX BBE16

Tensilica Xtensa LX Processor with Vectra LX - BDTI

Tensilica DSPs - the #1 Choice for Wireless Communications

Tensilica is changing the rules for communications chip designs. Why? Because Tensilica has the best combination of high performance, low power, and small area. By using multiple optimized processors, Tensilica provides smaller area and lower power than conventional single DSP implementations. In addition, Tensilica adds:

• C-programming model for all cores
• Further customization of processor core instructions
• Direct connectivity to external hardware blocks - no bus transfers required
• Libraries and large ecosystem support for full PHY solution
• World-class single development tool suite for all cores.

More DSP IP Core Choices Than Any Other Company

Everybody's DSP requirements are different. Instead of trying to figure out how to squeeze your requirements into a DSP core that doesn’t quite match your needs, Tensilica gives you lots of choices - as a matter of fact, Tensilica offers an almost unlimited range of DSPs. How can we do this? You can pick from several pre-defined function blocks in our ConnX DSP family or you can design your own to exactly match your application.

Tensilica's Wide Range of DSPs for Wireless Comms Modems

No matter what Tensilica solution you choose for your DSP functions, remember that it's based on our 32-bit Xtensa RISC processor, so you can often also use it for control functions. And we provide complete software compiler support so you can program your DSP in C, not assemly code.

Tensilica’s DSP solutions include:

For LTE/4G Complex Baseband Receivers and Demodulation Units:

• The ConnX Baseband Engine - BBE16 - with throughput of 16 18-bit MACs per cycle
• The ConnX Baseband Engine - BBE64 - with throughput of 64 - 128 MACs per cycle

For LTE-Advanced Handset Receivers:

• ConnX BBE32UE - optimized, low-power 32-MAC DSP
• ConnX BBE64UE - high-performance 64-MAC DSP

The Atlas LTE Reference Architecture:

• To kick start your LTE design

Baseband DPUs:

• ConnX SSP16 soft stream processor
• ConnX BSP3 bit stream processor
• ConnX Turbo16MS multistandard turbo processor

To Add to Your DSP SOC Design

• The ConnX D2 DSP engine is a basic dual-MAC DSP with outstanding compiler support for programs written in C as well as TI C6x and ITU-T intrinsic functions.
• The ConnX Vectra DSP engine is the powerhouse behind the ConnX 545CK - and you can add it to your design with the click of a mouse.
• The ConnX 545CK is an 8-MAC DSP with Vectra and acceleration instructions for common communications DSP tasks.
• See our page on customizing your own DSP

Controllers with DSP functions:

• Diamond Standard 106Micro –our smallest 32-bit core, yet it includes an iterative 32x32 multiplier
• Diamond Standard 108Mini – includes a 32x32 multiplier and a 32-bit integer divider
• Diamond Standard 212GP – with a 32x32 multiplier, 32-bit integer divider, and 16-bit DSP instructions
• Diamond Standard 232L – like the 212GP, but adds an MMU for Linux
• Diamond Standard 570T – Our highest performance controller with dual 32-bit multipliers