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Blog Post:
Geeks UNITE for Geek Pride Day
Lauren Reed1
Happy Geek Pride Day from the Processors team! We wanted to celebrate this fun holiday with a unique post on Multicore Mix. We asked some of our team members to answer the question, “ At what moment in your life did you realize you were a ‘geek’?” Needless to say, they didn’t...
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May 23, 2013
Blog Post:
How does embedded processing enable mission critical systems?
Hector Rivera
Our March application of the month is focused on mission critical. Mission critical applications include radar, image processing for radar, software defined radios and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). In this blog I will discuss how multicore ties into mission critical applications and how it all plays...
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Mar 5, 2013
Blog Post:
Clouds. Cells. Cool. Continued.
Ralf Bendlin
One year ago Multicore Mix blogger Debbie Shemony posted about trends in the wireless infrastructure market. On the horizon, she saw cloud base station architectures, heterogeneous networks with small cells, and energy-efficient technologies enabling better radio access networks at lower cost and energy...
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Jan 16, 2013
Blog Post:
A Better way to Cloud – It’s here today!
Debbie Greenstreet
It is always exciting to be part of a new product announcement, unveiling to the public, discussing with media and analysts the new features, functions and applications that the new product enables. As you may know, we recently announced a new family of products that are optimized for high performance...
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Dec 5, 2012
Blog Post:
Small Cells, Big Impact
Ralf Bendlin
This month’s featured multicore application, small cells , is a formidable occasion to look back at release 11, the current release of the LTE Advanced cellular communications standard, and to look forward to what the next release will bring in enhancements and novelties. All of the major building...
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Oct 31, 2012
Blog Post:
From Dallas to Salt Lake City – It’s Supercomputing Time Again!
Sarika Patel
It was just last year that we introduced our multicore DSPs to the high performance computing market -- and now it’s already time for our second visit to the annual Supercomputing 2012 show ! We’re excited to be in Salt Lake City from Nov. 12 – 15, for SC’12. In addition to taking...
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Oct 23, 2012
Blog Post:
Future Friday -- “Where are we going” in a world of DSP innovation
Arnon Friedmann
To follow my colleague’s Throwback Thursday post last week celebrating DSP innovation over the last 30 years, my 'Future Friday' post describes some of the innovations I believe DSP technology is driving (literally). “Where are we going?” This is a common phrase in our family...
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Sep 28, 2012
Blog Post:
Throwback Thursday: Innovation and friendship as paths converge at Texas Instruments
Debbie Greenstreet
Since TI has been a part of DSP innovation for 30 years, I found it to be a perfect time to reflect on the past; what has been significant in the TI role of the DSP over this timeframe. During a break in a recent TI multicore business meeting, the conversation migrated to what led each of us to TI. While...
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Sep 13, 2012
Blog Post:
Embodied Multicore Processing
Ralf Bendlin
The recent birth of my son left me remembering a talk from almost ten years ago. It’s interesting how our brain works. By watching my newborn son learn to turn reflexes into controlled motions, I’m realizing how complicated the most ordinary actions really are. One of his first milestones...
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Aug 22, 2012
Blog Post:
Cells: A Philosophical Excursion (Part 2)
Ralf Bendlin
In Part 1 of this two-part “philosophical excursion,” I ventured out to explore how I think LTE Advanced (LTE-A) has changed the notion of a cell in cellular communications. My focus was with respect to features, namely, carrier aggregation (CA) and coordinated multi-points (CoMP), and what...
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Aug 14, 2012
Blog Post:
Cells: A Philosophical Excursion (Part 1)
Ralf Bendlin
This is the first of a two - part excursion into the realm of philosophy as it relates to “cells.” Don’t worry, I’ll leave the important questions like “w hat is enlightenment?” to Emmanuel Kant and his successors. But since the evolution of LTE to LTE Advanced (LTE...
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Jul 20, 2012
Blog Post:
A perfect 12. What will our children use it for?
Ralf Bendlin
I recently had to switch offices and the colleague whose office space I inherited left me a gift: a poster from when TI unveiled the industry’s first 10 GHz DSP. “A perfect 10!” it reads, maybe alluding to the highest score an Olympic athlete can obtain in some gymnastic disciplines...
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Jun 27, 2012
Blog Post:
Multicore - For Ages 7 and Up
Debbie Shemony
Multicore - For Ages 7 and Up (a sequel to Multicore – For Ages 6 and Up ) At this year’s “ Bring Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day ” in TI’s Germantown, Maryland facility, the highlight for us wasn’t how much fun we had engaging on technology and science with...
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May 1, 2012
Blog Post:
Seeing is believing.
Debbie Shemony
Last week at theDesign West conference, the TI team and many of our colleagues from across the industry, participated in the Embedded Vision Alliance (EVA) partner meeting. Participants had a lively discussion on what the future holds in store for embedded vision technologies. As part of that dialogue...
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Apr 2, 2012
Blog Post:
Extra, extra: MCSDK-Video 2.0 now available!
Debbie Shemony
We've got some good news to share! The production release of our MCSDK-VIDEO 2.0 is now available for download . This package provides a software development environment to implement real-time video applications on TI's TMS320C66x multicore DSPs. For more information, check out my colleague...
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Mar 5, 2012
Blog Post:
TI Multicore 2011 in a Nutshell
Debbie Greenstreet
As the saying goes, my how time flies! In to another new year already. Well before we get used to writing 2012 as the date, I thought I would take a moment to reflect and review some exciting times for multicore development on our initial phase of the Multicore Mix blog. It seems we have had quite a...
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Jan 11, 2012
Blog Post:
Do we really need 'Transactional memory'?
one and zero
Transactional memory seems to gain more momentum these days. But what is behind this terminology? Let me try to explain this in my humble and simple words. Basically for me ' Transactional Memory ' is an atomic access that is non-blocking and coherency is checked at store time. Typically...
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Nov 21, 2011
Blog Post:
Happy Birthday to the C66x DSP
Debbie Greenstreet
The familiar saying, “how time flies” really seems appropriate to me right now. I was just celebrating the one year anniversary of our adoption of an adorable mixed breed puppy (8 weeks old at the time) from an animal rescue group. While it seems that we just brought him home, we only need...
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Nov 11, 2011
Blog Post:
Are You Tooled up for Multicore?
Debbie Greenstreet
Attention all Multicore software developers: Does this scenario sound familiar? You are funded for an exciting new product development project that promises to enable your company to offer a competitive, lower cost yet higher performing product. With the help of your analysis your management...
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Oct 21, 2011
Blog Post:
Multicore for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Sandeep Kumar43149
Over the last decade Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have finally evolved from lab testing to field proven technologies. In a recent study, the Teal Group estimated overall UAV expenditures will double within a decade from $5.9 billion annually to $11.3 billion, with more than $94 billion spent over the...
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Sep 28, 2011
Blog Post:
The answer is “42”. What was the question?
one and zero
There is a lot of discussion in the industry about what programming language is best suited for multicore architectures and I'm wondering which one will prevail. The same goes for programming paradigms and tooling. Will there be a standard way of programming multicore architectures? To be...
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Jul 28, 2011