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December  2009 
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New DSP Products
C-to-FPGA Integration Accelerates Prototyping 10X. more>>
New DaVinci™ DM37x video processors from Texas Instruments. more>>
Analog Devices - JESD204A Data Converters Reduce Power and Board Space. more>>
RF Engines Feature rich IP core offers fast route to production. more>>
Analog Devices Introduces Data Converter with Dynamic Power Control. more>>
FC300 OFDM IP Core Helps OEM Customers Reduce Development Time. more>>
Octasic Introduces New Multi-Core DSP Device for Video. more>>
Actel Announces Power Management Solution for SmartFusion FPGA. more>>

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Digital Signal Processing Theory and Application
25th - 27th January, Oxford, UK. more>>
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8th - 9th March, Singapore. more>>
DSP Theory Algorithms & Architectures
24th -27th May, Glasgow, UK. more>>
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Analog Devices
Embedded Processing Design Made Easy. The ADI BF518F FMC Reference Design, available from Avnet, provides a simple-to-use platform using the BF518F Blackfin Processor and the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework.  more>>  
Spectrum Digital
NEW-IMPROVED Low cost JTAG Emulation from Spectrum Digital! The popular SDI XDS100 JTAG emulator now has USB 2.0 speed, an extension cable for hard to reach JTAG headers and CCS v4 support for low cost development.  more>>  
Innovative Integration
Soul of a New Machine - eInstrument-PC (Atom). Atom-based Low Power COM-Express CPU plus Dual XMC I/O Modules in a Compact Embedded PC Use eInstrument-PC.  more>>  
Blackhawk
Blackhawk's LAN560 JTAG Emulator for TI DSP's is two emulators in one with a local high-speed USB port and 10/100 ethernet LAN interface. Debug on your workbench, across the building or around the world  more>>  
Signum Systems
DM365 Linux Debugging the Easy Way. The JTAGjet-DaVinci now supports embedded Linux on the TI DM365 digital media processor. JTAGjet-DaVinci comes with Chameleon Debugger requiring no serial or Ethernet port.  more>>  
Red Rapids
No FPGA programming required! Softband Radio performs wideband digital down conversion with a rich set of software selectable features. Dual channel 16-bit (130 Msps) and 12-bit (213 Msps) options available.  more>>  
 
DSP Articles
Understanding Continuous-Time, Discrete-Time Sigma-Delta ADCs And Nyquist ADCs by Qui Luu & Richard Schreier - Electronic Design
Sigma-delta converters are in wide use among applications that demand high precision and accuracy. A variant of the sigma-delta architecture, called the continuous-time sigma delta, has found homes in embedded applications such as mobile handsets for some time.

Due to the high performance, efficiency, and ease of use of the continuous-time sigma delta architecture, manufacturers of high-performance analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are now bringing this converter architecture to market as a standard product.
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The evolving landscape of digital signal processing by Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor - EDN
Digital-processing options have commercially expanded beyond just software-programmable-processor devices and core offerings to include other options, such as programmable fabrics, IP (intellectual-property) blocks, and mixed-processing SOCs (systems on chips). These processing options complement as well as compete with each other because each faces a different set of constraints.

Signal processing involves mathematical manipulation for transforming - using filtering, Fourier transform, compression, decompression, synthesizing, recognizing, enhancing, encoding, decoding, and other methods - a set of data or a stream of signals. The continual advancement of microprocessors and growing base of developers who need this technology are leading the trend away from stand-alone DSPs.
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