October  2006 
ARM and Spirit form Strategic Partnership for Mobile Multimedia.
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New Low Power Data Converter from Analog Devices.
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High Performance Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA board with USB 2.0 Host Interface.
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Texas Instruments Introduces the Industry’s Very Low Cost Floating-Point DSP.
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Precision 14-bit Data Acquisition Board for the F2812 eZdsp Development System.
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New 90nm Lattice ECP2M FPGAs.
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ip.access selects picoChip technology for 3G femtocell development.
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Parsec Announces PMC Module Leveraging Altera’s Stratix II GX and Stratix FPGAs
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New Digital Receiver Board with High-Speed A/D.
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Spectrum Digital announces the new XDS560R USB JTAG Emulator. This advanced emulator, selling for $ 2499.00 in North America, supports TI DavinciTM, OMAP, C6xxx, C5xxx, F28xx, and TMS470 ARM processors. Availability: Aug 1, 2006. more>> 

 


16 Ch. Digital Receiver PMC Card with 4 A/Ds
Ideal for Software Radio & more!!!
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Kane Computing Limited has cemented key relationships with TI, TI ASPs and 3rd Party Partners to provide EVMs, Emulators, SDK's, Codecs and Linux Middleware for DaVinci, plus UK based advice and support.  more>>

 

Blackhawk’s USB560BP JTAG Emulator for TI DSP’s is not only the most popular and preferred USB emulator, but also the first XDS560-class device that requires NO power supply and weighs under 5 ounces. Special Offer.  more>>   

 
 

The FPGA05 family of Xilinx Virtex-5 LX FPGA PMCs from VMETRO merge a new generation of DSP performance with a choice of I/O options including analog input/output, LVDS, Camera Link, RS485 and FPDP. more>> 

  The SMT489, is an FPGA PrPMC module with lots of IO interfaces and a 64 bits, 66MHz PCI bus support delivering data rate of 500+MB/s. SMT498’s XC2VP100 FPGA is the largest available from Xilinx.     more>> 
 
  The Dallas Basestation Conference – enabling mobile broadband networks: 7th – 9th Nov 2006. Bringing together major global manufacturers, operators, analysts and service providers in the mobile network infrastructure community.  more>>     

GSPx Silicon Valley, the International Signal Processing Conference. October 30-November 2, 2006: Addressing the needs of design engineers and developers working on today’s increasingly complex designs. more>> 

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Square Root and Inverse Square Root Approximations - by Iain Paterson Stephens
It is often necessary to be able to calculate the square root or inverse square root of a non-negative floating-point number to a high degree of accuracy. This may be used, for example, when calculating the magnitude of the output from an FFT or for Feedforward Automatic Gain Control. A simple, effective and fast algorithm for this is based on the Newton-Raphson iteration method.

For example, the inverse square root 'x' of the floating point number 'y' can be calculated as follows.
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Time Stretching And Pitch Shifting of Audio Signals by Stephan M. Bernsee.

As opposed to the process of pitch transposition achieved using a simple sample rate conversion, Pitch Shifting is a way to change the pitch of a signal without changing its length. In practical applications, this is usually achieved by changing the length of a sound using one of the below methods and then performing a sample rate conversion to change the pitch.

There exists a certain confusion in terminology, as Pitch Shifting is often also incorrectly named 'Frequency Shifting'. A true Frequency Shift (as obtainable by modulating an analytic signal by a complex exponential) will shift the spectrum of a sound, while Pitch Shifting will dilate it, upholding the harmonic relationship of the sound. Frequency Shifting yields a metallic, inharmonic sound which may well be an interesting special effect but which is a totally inadequate process for changing the pitch of any harmonic sound except a single sine wave.  more>>


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