Industry Analysts Talk About the TMS320C82

TI's High Performance, Low Cost Digital Signal Processor

Will Strauss, President

Forward Concepts

"The God Processor, the 'C80, has a disciple in the form of a low cost, high performance solution...the 'C82. The 'C82 is cost effective and has more than enough power to be the core engine on several multimedia applications."

Rick Sizemore, Principal

TRIMM - Total Research in Multimedia

"The new cost-reduced TI 'C82 looks like an ideal solution for high-volume interactive applications that use video, graphics or animation."

"With darned near everything getting connected to the Internet World Wide Web, there is an absolute requirement for imaging and compression functions to be able to adjust themselves to the bandwidth of varying delivery pipelines. This means that fixed hardware solutions are out. Only products that can be easily reprogrammed will work."

"Because the TI 'C82 is a full-blown multiple DSP, it fills the bill for adaptive, reprogrammable functionality. The fact that it hits 1.5 billion operations per second and costs less than $90 should make it a hands down winner."

Gerry Kaufhold, Vice President

ThorKa Research

"The 'C82 delivers more functional multimedia MIPS than any other announced programmable SP solution. The flexibility of the 'C82 will spur low cost video telephony and video codec designs which evolve in functionality and grow in performance as third party integrators add their proprietary enhancement value to h.320 and h.324 standards solutions."

Richard Doherty, Director
The Envisioneering Group