Texas Instruments (TI) announced a triple-core digital signal processor (DSP) that can run paravirtualized Linux using VirtualLogix's VLX virtualization software. The single-die TMS320C6474 integrates three TMS320C64x+ cores running at 1GHz each, and targets DSP farms in communications infrastructure, medical imaging, military communications, and industrial vision inspection. The triple-core C6474 is aimed at customers who have been using boards that integrate multiple DSPs in order to simultaneously process multiple channels, execute multiple applications, or accomplish other challenging concurrent computing tasks demanded of DSP farms. A version of the C647x with six cores will will be announced in 1Q 2009, TI said. C6474 simplified function block diagram Compared to discrete processing boards that incorporate multiple...
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