News
	Date Posted:	10/12/2008
	Title:	BittWare Announces Hybrid Signal Processing AMC Module Based on TI''''s C6474 Multicore DSP ( 1255)
	Summary	Architecture combining TI DSP and Altera FPGA is ideal for wireless communications applications requiring high-end processing and reconfigurability
	Main Text	BittWare has announced that they will be supporting Texas Instruments^^ TMS320C6474 digital signal processor (DSP) on their F1/GX-AMC. Featuring the high-performance, multicore C6474 DSP designed specifically for telecommunications infrastructure applications and coupled with a high-density Altera® Stratix® II GX FPGA, the BittWare F1/GXAM provides a completely flexible, reconfigurable platform for high-end digital signal processing. "TI^^s C6474 offers a total of 3.0 GHz raw DSP processing power by combining three blazing fast cores, along with 3 MBytes of on-chip L2 SRAM/cache, and native OBSAI and CPRI antenna interfaces - all in a single low power chip," stated Ron Huizen, BittWare^^s VP of Technology. "We are excited to be supporting this part." "We are pleased that BittWare is supporting our newest multicore DSP available to the broad market," said Primo Castro, product marketing manager for TI^^s high performance DSP catalog processors group. "The F1/GXAM will enable our customers to easily access the power of the C6474 on a compact form-factor."