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On the fringe with Gene Frantz Explore the world of embedded processing from the perspective of a man who has seen and done it all! Enjoy the wild, wacky world of DSP, ARM and MCU through the eyes of Gene..
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The Power of ISSCC

Posted 2 months ago

by Gene Frantz
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I’ll be attending ISSCC next week, speaking about low power innovations in medical applications and I just posted a preview blog about these thoughts on the PowerHouse blog. Check it out .
Haven’t you heard? Consumer audio and voice applications are making some noise!

Posted 8 months ago

by Gene Frantz
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Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP I’ve been around the world of digital signal processing for many years. My first voice product used a fixed function signal processor. Then, when the industry was...
The New DSP

Posted over 1 year ago

by Gene Frantz
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Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP If you have followed my blogs over the years you know that I am seen as the Digital Signal Processor guy. You may also remember not too far back that TI announced we were...
My theory of Panel Discussions

Posted over 1 year ago

by Gene Frantz
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Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP In a previous Blog ( here ) I discussed the panel discussion that I moderated at the DSP Workshop in Sedona, Arizona. So this is a follow on to that Blog with an explanation...
CAN you see us now? TI celebrates the 25th anniversary of CAN.

Posted over 1 year ago

by Gene Frantz
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I understand that we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the CAN interface today. I would like to turn this blog over to a couple of our engineers to discuss what the CAN interface has meant to TI. Guest Bloggers: Scott Monroe , Analog Systems...
My first week back to work this year

Posted over 1 year ago

by Gene Frantz
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Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP I hope all of you had a very Merry Christmas and look forward to a prosporous New Year. So far that is what it has been for me. I began my new year bright and early...
Can an Embedded Processor Really Sing?

Posted over 1 year ago

by Gene Frantz
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Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP When we began the era of Digital Signal Processors in the early 1980s, they were programmed using assembly code. As the technology matured we began...
Turning the Market Inside Out

Posted over 2 years ago

by Gene Frantz
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Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP Technological advances has a habit of changing our perspective of things. One of the perspectives I am seeing change is the flow of the market. My first observation of...
How many pixels is enough?

Posted over 2 years ago

by Gene Frantz
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Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP It's a fun time in the world of vision systems. Technology is blossoming all around us in the area. We are seeing several trends simultaneously happening: - We want...
Blog - 3D Imaging – Adding a new dimension

Posted over 2 years ago

by Gene Frantz
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Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP I saw an interesting demo the other day from a small company in Korea, ECT. It seems they have figured out how to take a two dimensional video stream and convert it...
2020 Vision, two years later

Posted over 2 years ago

by Gene Frantz
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Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP I am now finished with the details of our “2020 vision” that we did two years ago. It is always fun to look back on a prediction of the future and see if it’s...
Is DSP really dead?

Posted over 3 years ago

by Gene Frantz
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Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP I am currently running a series looking at where technology will be in 2020. I hope you are enjoying it! I wanted to break into that series for a minute to comment on...
Tools in 2020: Development tools are key to SoC implementation

Posted over 3 years ago

by Gene Frantz
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By Reid Tatge, TI Fellow Customers need chips, tools and software that match the specific needs of their application. In addition, they need everything to be simple to design into a product, easy to program efficiently, ultra-low power and ultra-low...
From 2009 to 2020: A history of developments in programmability

Posted over 3 years ago

by Gene Frantz
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Alan Gatherer, CTO Communications Infrastructure Group Predicting the future is primarily an act of the imagination. However, Digital Signal Processors are showing some strong trends and I think it is possible to predict what will happen in the next...
Processor Architectures – Where will we will be in 2020?

Posted over 3 years ago

by Gene Frantz
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Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP I started some discussions early last year about where technology would be in 2020 when I originally posted this blog. Since then, I have worked with some of the top...
A buck a billion

Posted over 3 years ago

by Gene Frantz
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Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP Last year I spent a lot of time looking at where our industry would be in the year 2020 ( see 2-6-08 blog here ) and came up with some interesting predictions on everything...
The End of Moore’s Law

Posted over 3 years ago

by Gene Frantz
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Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP I have spoken to several people over the last couple of days on the topic of the end of Moore’s Law. So I thought it would be fun to throw a few thoughts out on...
I found Twitter, or Twitter found me…now what?

Posted over 3 years ago

by Gene Frantz
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Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP When I heard about this Twitter thing, it fell into the category of things my generation just didn’t do. Really, why do I care what people are thinking right now...
My trip to China and what I learned at the Universities: DSP Theory or DSP Design?

Posted over 3 years ago

by Gene Frantz
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Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow and Business Development Manager, DSP As I was sitting in the airport in Shanghai waiting for my flight back to the US, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on what I saw in China. My original purpose for...
Floating a new idea

Posted over 3 years ago

by Gene Frantz
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Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow and Business Development Manager, DSP We recently announced a new floating-point core that allows our designers to do fixed- and floating-point instructions on the same DSP opening up many new applications that need...
The price is right for innovation

Posted over 3 years ago

by Gene Frantz
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Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow and Business Development Manager, DSP In my last blog, I talked about how the economy can be a trigger point for innovation. This time I will look at the role price plays. As I have thought about TI’s...
The upside to the downturn

Posted over 3 years ago

by Gene Frantz
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Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow and Business Development Manager, DSP Times are tough. We are in a financial crisis and we are spending our future to try to get out of it. We are losing our jobs and our companies are in chaos. This seems...
Platform-based design in the year 2020

Posted over 4 years ago

by Michael Sandoval
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Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow and Business Development Manager, DSP Multi-core SoC designs will be pervasive with high-performance engines supporting an order of magnitude more MACs by 2020. Despite architectural innovations, how-ever, front-end computations...
What Santa Didn’t Bring Me – and Why I’m Glad

Posted over 4 years ago

by Michael Sandoval
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Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow and Business Development Manager, DSP It’s been a couple of weeks since Christmas and my exploration of potential new toys at the Consumer Electronics Show, so I’ve had time to reflect on whether there were any big misses...
Processor Architectures – Where will we will be in 20/20?

Posted over 4 years ago

by Michael Sandoval
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Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow and Business Development Manager, DSP I have come to the conclusion that too many of us have no clue where we are going with technology. Rather, we are just busily moving forward and don’t know if we are even moving in...

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