Researchers with the Moscow Center for SPARC Technologies (MCST) have announced a new, homegrown CPU core is ready for the mass market. Dubbed the Elbrus-4C, this new chip is based a VLIW (Very Long ...

Digital signal processors (DSPs) have found widespread use for many computationally intensive signal processing applications in fields such as communications. As the communication applications become ...

The latest release of CoWare's Processor Designer boosts support for next-generation very-long-instruction-word (VLIW) processors. Processor Designer enables users to explore a large design space to ...

Siroyan is to deploy ARM's open standard Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA), both in its first synthesisable core (a “soft core”) – code-named Rubicon and its first test chip – ...

Tensilica has delivered a range of processor architectures like the Xtensa LX (see Power Play For The SoC Developers) as well as DSP and the ConnX comm processor (see Dataplane Processing Unit More ...

In the early 2000s, digital signal processors (DSP) were simple in architecture and limited in performance, but complex in programming. However, they evolved to meet of the increased performance ...