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Taking Digital Signal
Processing to the Extreme
In this series on digital signal processing, the Xcell Xcell Journal Journal spotlights the challenges
of and solutions to developing extremely high-performance DSP applications.
by Omid Tahernia
Vice President and General Manager, DSP Division
Xilinx, Inc.
omid.tahernia@xilinx.com
Programmable DSP processors are growing tremendously and are being implemented in
a variety of applications. To keep pace with this explosive growth, Xilinx ® is expanding
and enhancing its XtremeDSP processing solution. We’ve added dedicated DSP elements
into our FPGAs to make it easier and more cost- and power-efficient to achieve
performance levels previously only possible in custom ASICs.
The Xilinx solution is the perfect match with programmable DSP processors.
The Xilinx tool suite allows you to very easily develop massively parallel digital signal
processing engines that can do the “heavy lifting” in a complementary fashion to
programmable DSPs.
Providing extremely high-performance DSP solutions has become so important at
Xilinx that we have recently created a DSP division. We are consolidating our DSP
resources and creating focused development platforms and reference designs to help
designers of high-performance DSPs get up to speed on our solution quickly and cost
effectively.
In the following series, you will find articles on prototyping, developing, implementing,
and analyzing in the context of real-world, high-performance DSP applications,
using tools from Xilinx and our partners.
DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING
Table of Contents
Implementing H.264/AVC
Video Coding Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
GSM Modem on a DSP/FPGA Architecture . . . 44
Design Kits Turbo-Charge DSP Applications . . . 48
System Generator to Create
J.83 Cable Modulator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Implementing DSP Algorithms in FPGAs . . . . . 56
XtremeDSP Slices Deliver More GMACs . . . . . 60
Image Processing Algorithms
with System Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Simulink Brings Model-Based Design
to Embedded Signal Processing. . . . . . . . . . . 66
Interfacing Simulink to the Analog World . . . . 70
Build Custom Real-Time Video Applications . . . 74
Let System Generator Do the Handshaking. . . 78
Early Access: The Designer’s Edge . . . . . . . . . 81
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