This survey is kindly sponsored by Blackhawk - powering DSP development
The DSPStore Survey was sent to over 35,000 design engineers and managers in November 2006 and we have received over 3,200 replies to date. The results below show the number of positive replies for each section as a percentage of the total number of received survey forms.

 

Which types of device do you use to execute your digital signal processing algorithms?
45.7%

Fixed Point DSP

29.5%

Floating Point DSP

3.8%

Proprietary DSP core

3.3%

Licensed DSP Core

3%

Custom DSP Asic

26.2%

FPGA
22.2%

DSP/FPGA Combination

4.2%

Parallel DSP Array

20.8%

General Purpose Processor (e.g., ARM, Pentium)



 

If you use a general purpose DSP device, which DSP manufacturer's devices do you use?

25.2%

Analog Devices

 
0.9%

CEVA
2.6% DSP Architectures
9.2%

Freescale Semiconductor

0.6% Hyperstone
5.2%

Intel

0.8% NEC
5% Microchip
2.6%

National Semiconductor

3.7%

Philips

1.6%

Qualcomm

0.1% Sandbridge
0.4%

Skyworks

2.5%

STMicroelectronics

0.4% Surf Communications
46.4%

Texas Instruments

0.7% Verisilicon (ZSP)

 

If you use a DSP core, which manufacturer's devices do you use?

3.9%

3DSP

 
12.2%

Analog Devices Blackfin
0.5%

Cast

1.5%

CEVA/DSP Group

0.5%

ChipWrights

0.2%

Clarkspur

0.8%

Evatronix

1.3%

Faraday

1%

Hyperstone

1.9% Imagination Technologies
0.2%

Improv

0.2%

Intrinsity

0.9%

Morpho Technologies

0.6%

Sandbridge

1.2%

Silicon Hive

1%

Verisilicon (ZSP)

 

 

If you use an FPGA, which manufacturer's devices do you use?

4.2 %

Actel

 
23.4%

Altera

4.9%

Atmel

4%

Lattice

1.5%

QuickLogic

36.5%

Xilinx


 

If you use an operating system for your DSP solution, which manufacturer's product do you use?

1.3%

BREW

 
0.9%

CMX

22.8%

DSP/BIOS

1.6%

Green Hills - Integrity

0.8%

ITRON
16.6%

Linux

1.4%

LynxOS

0.5%

MTOS

1.4%

Mentor - Nucleus

0.9%

OSE

5.5%

Proprietary OS

1.4%

pSOS

2.5%

QNX

0.4%

Quadros RTXC

0.1%

SavaJe XE

2.6%

Symbian

1.5%

ThreadX

0.6%

Mentor -VRTX

7.7%

VxWorks

16.3%

Microsoft Windows

 

If you use a design/simulation tool, which manufacturer's tool do you use?

0.3% ACE CoSy Complier  
0.4% Atair Developer Studio
31.3% Code Composer Studio
6.8% DSP Builder
12.4%

LabVIEW

38%

Matlab/Simulink

14.6% ModelSim
3.9% System Generator
0.8% SystemVue
16.2% VisualDSP
2.2% VisSim


 

If you use off-the-shelf development boards, which manufacturer's boards do you use?

2% Acquisition Technology  
1%

Alpha Data

2.1% Ateme
1.9% Bittware
3.7% Blackhawk
0.2% Dalanco Spry
1.1% Data Translation
1.4% Digilab 2000
1.2% Domain Technologies
5.9% DSP Research
0.6% Eonic
0.4% GaGe
1.5% Hunt Engineering
1.3% ICS
1.5% Innovative Integration
0.4% Link Research
1.7% Lyrtech
1.3% Mango DSP
3.3% MicroLab Systems
1.8% Nallatech
0.2% Orange Tree
1.4% Pentek
0.2% Sheldon Instruments
0.9% Signalogic
1.2% Signum Systems
0.8% Signatec
0.55 Soft DB
0.1% Softronix
15.7% Spectrum Digital
0.3% Spinel Technology
0.5% Surf Communications
1.9% Sundance
0.6% Traquair Data Systems
0.5% Varisys
0.9% VMetro

 

If you use off-the-shelf emulators ,which manufacturer's tools do you use?

1.8% Ateme  
0.1% BeastRider
7.4% Blackhawk
2.1% Domain Technologies
5.8% DSP Research
0.6% GAO Engineering
1.3% Innovative Integration
1.2% Lyrtech
3.9% MicroLab Systems
0.8% SCAN
1.7% Signum Systems
1.6% Softronics
17.2% Spectrum Digital
2.3% Wintech Digital

 

Which best describes your job?

5.6%

Senior Executive

 
12.7%

Project Manager

19.2%

Hardware Engineer

25.3%

Software Engineer

1.3%

Marketing & Sales

4.3%

Consultant

10.5% Academic
4.4% Student

This survey is kindly sponsored by Blackhawk - powering DSP development