'C67x Generation: First 1-GFLOPS Floating-Point DSP

The TMS320C67x DSPs bring the same raw processing capabilities of the TMS320C62x fixed-point DSPs to floating-point applications. As the industry’s first processors to cross the 1 GFLOPS (1 billion floating-point operations per second) performance barrier, ’C67x DSPs will provide incredible speed, precision, and dynamic range for next-generation applications.

Applications include wireless local loop and beam-forming basestations, virtual reality, 3D graphics, speech recognition, radar, and imaging systems such as fingerprint recognition, CAT scan, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

The ’C67x DSPs’ significant advantages do not stop with excellent performance. In addition to performance, the ’C67x floating-point and the ’C62x fixed-point DSPs share a common architecture—VelociTI™ advanced very long instruction word (VLIW). The means the ’C6701 is both pin and code compatible with the ’C6201. Designers can develop code for the ’C62x fixed-point devices and then port the code directly to ’C67x floating-point devices. In addition, the devices’ common architecture provides a single development platform, allowing designers to begin writing code today on available fixed-point devices and then transfer the code to ’C67x floating-point devices when they are released to production. Samples of the TMS320C6701 will be available in the second half of 1998 from Texas Instruments and its authorized distributors.

The TMS320C6701

The TMS320C6701 uses the revolutionary VelociTI architecture. Peripherals include:

Large on-chip memory
32-bit external memory interface
16-bit host access port
Four direct memory access (DMA) channels
Two multichannels buffered serial ports (McBSPs)
Two 32-bit timers

TMS320C6000

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