Texas Instruments Inc. (TI, Dallas, TX) announced three new floating-point digital signal processors (DSPs), the C67x™ devices, based on the TMS320C67x™ DSP generation, which are a C-efficient, VLIW architecture that are suitable for audio applications and for a wide variety of applications that leverage floating-point technology, including biometrics, medical and industrial applications.
The C672x devices -- the TMS320C6722, TMS320C6726 and TMS320C6727 -- range in clock speed from 200 MHz to 300 MHz with up to 256 KB of SRAM and 32 KB of instruction cache. The peripherals on the C672x were selected specifically with audio applications in mind. The subset of peripherals varies depending on the specific processor, but the C672x devices include up to three McASPs, two SPI, an HPI, an RTI, an EMIF, two I2C, a PLL and a dMAX engine.
TI is simultaneously announcing a Professional Audio Development Kit (PADK) from Lyrtech Signal Processing, which allows developers to quickly evaluate the C672x device performance and begin product development immediately without having to first develop their own prototype board. The C672x devices are now sampling with production slated for the fourth quarter of 2005. The C6722 DSP at 200 MHz is priced at $9.95, the C6726 DSP at 250 MHz is priced at $14.10 and the C6727 DSP at 300 MHz is $19.95, all in production volumes. The PADK is also available now from Lyrtech at a cost of $1,995, and it will be available from TI in the third quarter of 2005.
