Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) announced two new high performance digital signal processors (DSP), the TMS320C6410 and TMS320C6413, available at breakthrough price points. Targeting packet-switched telecom including video over IP and other cost-sensitive, high performance applications, the new devices provide TMS320C64xTM performance with additional memory, peripheral and lower price options. Extending the C64xTM roadmap to include these new low-cost devices, a new performance value vector has been added to the roadmap, including the TMS320C6410 DSP, which provides more than 6X performance per dollar improvement over high-end C64x devices developed in 2002 and is priced at only $17.95. (For more information or to see the latest C6000 roadmap, please see: www.ti.com/performancevaluepr.)
Customers Require High-Performance and Low-Cost
The C6410 and C6413 DSPs extend the C64x generation and create a fundamental shift in the price/performance ratio for high-end DSPs. Customers have awaited this transformation, which will enable the next wave of innovation in DSP applications. The C6410, priced at $17.95, offers a substantial price/performance ratio of 89 MMACs (Million Multiply - Accumulates) per dollar, while the C6413, priced at $28.95, offers 69 MMACS per dollar at a clock rate of 500 MHz.
Integrated on-chip are two standard McBSPs for multi-channel clocked serial communication, two Audio Serial Ports compatible with IIS and common stereo codecs, a 16-/32-bit microprocessor Host Port Interface, and two IIC control serial ports. Also included is an on-chip oscillator that lowers overall system cost by enabling developers to use a lower cost crystal in place of an external oscillator.
Pricing and Availability
The TMS320C6410 running at 400 MHz with 160 Kbytes total memory is $17.95 (10Ku), and the 500 MHz TMS320C6413 has 288 Kbytes total memory and costs $28.95 (10Ku). Both are packaged in a 23 mm x 23 mm flip-chip BGA package (288 pins, 4 rows, 1.0 mm BGA pitch), which maximizes channel density and allows four layer board routing. Samples are available now with full production slated for September 2004.
