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Many of the world's leading silicon vendors maintain developer networks supporting their products. We are one of the most active companies participating in Texas Instruments' 3rd Party Network and Analog Devices' DSP Collaborative. We consider ourselves the missing link between hardware vendors, their support team and you as a customer.
Texas Instruments (TI) is one of our most important technology partners when it comes to applications in digital signal processing. For more than 10 years (since 1996) we are a member of TI's Third Party Network. The first DSP products from TI hit the market in 1982 (TMS320C10) which made TI, together with NEC and AT&T one of the first true DSP companies.
Texas Instruments has always been keeping an eye on harmony between silicon products, optimized development tools (Code Composer Studio), and the Third Party Network with more than 600 members today.
We have specialized in using TMS320 signal processors, mainly C55x, C54x, VC33, C6x and DM64x. Though our experience is based on these DSP families, we can handle any DSP chip with ease. In addition to DSPs from Texas Instruments, we utilize MSP430 micro-controllers whenever low power consumption is an issue.
Analog Devices originally manufactured high-performance analog products (e.g. op-amps), later mixed-signal products (data converters) were incorporated in their portfolio, leading to bit-slice products - the building blocks of modern digital signal processing - and finally, sometime around 1986, Analog Devices began shipping monolithic programmable DSP devices (ADSP-2100).
Like Texas Instruments, Analog Devices has established a ntwork of independent consultants and developers who today are part of the DSP Collaborative. Bayer DSP Solutions has been part of that network since early 1996.
Based on more than two decades of project experience using Analog Devices DSPs, we are proud that no ADI signal processor family has been omitted in our past and current projects, with just one exception - the TigerSHARC. You can call on us for help with ADSP-210x, ADSP-218x, ADSP-219x, CSP, SHARC (all generations) and Blackfin devices.
Though we are not officially linked to the largest vendor of FPGA technology, we have gained significant expertise in co-designing DSP and FPGA solutions with Xilinx FPGAs and off-the-shelf signal processors.
Wherever meaningful, we use Xilinx FPGAs as co-processor to the DSP, e.g. to pre-process streaming video data or simply as I/O extenders and format converters. The programmable logic families we integrate in our DSP systems include but are not limited to Spartan 2(E), Spartan 3(E,A) and Spartan 6 FPGAs as well as CoolRunner CPLDs.
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