What People Are Saying About TI's TMS320C27x
"TI DSPs are a primary ingredient for improving the quality, storage capacity and performance of our disk drives. The new 'C27x architecture offers us an easy-to-use path toward higher performance and improved integration, ensuring that future generations of products maintain our leadership position. This DSP provides both computing power and microcontroller ease-of-use in a single architecture, the new 'C27x core becomes the ideal vehicle for increasing the performance of disk drive electronics."
Michael R. Cannon
President and CEO, Maxtor Corp.
"TI's new DSPs should allow design teams to more quickly advance their successive generations of higher-performance drive products. But even more importantly, TI's new DSPs could provide more efficient real-time (factory-floor) debugging and trouble-shooting data. TI's new DSP architecture might help drive makers control costs by providing more proficient ways to increase yields and diminish manufacturing waste, which means that TI's new 'C27x designs should command careful attention not only from high-level engineers but also from cost-conscious executives."
John Monroe
Chief Analyst, Rigid Disk Drives at Dataquest
"TI has really joined the pieces of the puzzle together to take the next leap toward carving itself a larger piece of the controller market. Since TI is delivering a high performance, flexible -- yet exceptionally easy-to-use architecture offering intuitive coding, the 'C27x family just may cause engineer's eyes to open wide. The icing on the cake is TI's MCU and DSP industry-leading real-time, non-intrusive on-chip emulation that screams at 100MHz."
Joyce Putscher
Industry Analyst, InStat
"TI's new DSP chip will allow today's high performance hard disk drives to use a uniprocessor architecture thereby reducing the cost of silicon required in the drive. Right now only the lower performance drives are able to use one processor."
Michelle Abraham
Industry Analyst, Computer Market Services, InStat
"TI's 'C27x core appears to be tailored to meet exacting data storage industry needs for a uniprocessor solution. By harnessing the DSP core's enhanced Harvard architecture, drive designers will be able to develop long-lasting uniprocessor designs without the cost penalties involved in upgrading to a superfast 32-bit microprocessor and its associated memory."
Michael Elphick
Consulting Editor, Data Storage Magazine.
"The tools incorporated in TI's new 'C27x DSP will enable a new level of drive electronics integration. Multi-core ICs such as this will result in significant savings in the ultra cost conscious HDD market."
Christopher Dawe
Storage Semiconductor Analyst, International Data Corporation (IDC)
Related Documentation:
Digital Signal Processing Solutions - TMS320C27x