TMS320C5502 and TMS320C5509 Quote Sheet
"TI continues to defend its leadership position with the announcement of these two new devices in their TMS320C55x™ generation of DSPs. The C5502 offers excellent performance at a very aggressive price while the C5509 probably has more features than any other DSP in the market today."
Will Strauss, President of Forward Concepts
"Novasonics has selected to design-in the TMS320C55x™ generation into our hand-held ultrasound imaging units. TI's DSP gives us a clear advantage in performance and power savings at system level. TI's DSP is a great enabler for our unique intellectual property and technology to bring revolutionary products to the health care market. One of the key advantages of our products will be the ease of access to high quality ultrasound imaging at point-of-care, thereby significantly improving diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of conditions."
Syed Zafar Hamdani, CEO/President of Novasonics
"Paradyne, a pioneer and leader in broadband access solutions, is constantly challenged with bringing products to market that offer our customers the best combination of speed, functionality, scalability and profitability. With TI's new C5502, we will be able to do just that - add speed, functionality, and scalability to our Hotwire™ ReachDSL products with the cost benefits of the C5502. Because the C5502 takes no shortcuts with its high-bandwidth EMIF, ample supply of GPIO, tight code-size, and new peripherals, we will be able to easily integrate it into our products."
Robert Balsamo, VP of Product Marketing, Paradyne
"I selected TI's C55x™ as the basis for my book Real-Time Digital Signal Processing: Implementations, Applications, and Experiments with the TMS320C55x and two courses: EE452 - Real-Time Digital Signal Processing, and EE550 - Digital Signal Processing for THREE SIMPLE REASONS:
- The high processing speed, high code density, and low power consumption of the C55x will make it become the most popular DSP chip for DSP applications, especially in wireless and portable devices.
- The upward compatibility with the C54x™, the most widely used fixed-point DSP, allows an engineer to upgrade the design from the C54x to the C55x easily. In addition, it is easy to upgrade the DSP course and experiments from the C54x to the C55x.
- The C55x C compiler efficiency - TI's Code Composer Studio supports mixing C and assembly programs in a very productive environment for software development."
Dr. Sen Kuo, Dept of Electrical Engineering, Northern Illinois University
"Spectrum Digital's C5509 will showcase the new never-before-seen peripherals of TI's C5509 - including USB 1.1 and the many glueless media storage interfaces (MMC, SD, and MemoryStick). This EVM combined with our emulation products and Code Composer Studio provides everything a customer needs to begin development today."
Mike Strain, President, Spectrum Digital
"For the portable and connected hand-held appliance market, human interfacing features will be essential. ART's award-winning voice and handwriting recognition algorithms are optimized to take advantage of the C5502 and C5509 performance capabilities to provide more features and longer battery life."
Yakov Shulman,VP Sales & Marketing Europe & Asia, Advanced Recognition Technologies
"The portable, connected information appliance market is already exploding. A.T.E.M.E. is ready to support the market for these low-cost feature-rich consumer electronic products. With TI's $9.95 TMS320VC5502, highly integrated TMS320VC5509 and A.T.E.M.E.'s highly robust MPEG4 and JPEG2000 algorithms, customers will be able to enter the market place faster than ever before. This is important for OEMs in the consumer space where new features are added to their products on an annual basis."
Marc Guillaumet, Product Department Manager, A.T.E.M.E.
"Through handheld devices, the mass market has discovered powerful and immediately available assistants. Now users want these companions to include functionalities that were, up to now, reserved for high-end platforms. Combining TI's new C5502 or C5509 with the technologies of BABEL, users will benefit from the high performance speech recognition and the high quality Text-To-Speech capabilities. With this new generation of platforms, the state-of-the-art technologies of BABEL are becoming the key interfaces between all embedded applications and the final users."
Daniel Migeotte, Embedded Systems Manager, BABEL
"Being one of the first US TI third parties to have eXpressDSP™ compliant C55x algorithms excites us as we continue to support the broad customer base designing with the C5000 family. The C5502 and C5509 will open up new markets and build on the solid foundation of the C5000 product line. Code compatibility between the C54x and C55x is critical to our ability to provide our customers with the software they need in the timeframe that they need it."
R. Douglas Shute, President and CEO,
Delphi Communications Systems
"TI's announcement of the C5502 and C5509 shows its commitment to meeting market demands for lower-cost products and new peripherals never before seen on general purpose programmable DSPs. These two new devices, along with the award-winning C5510, provide customers with a choice of C55x products with which to develop. DSP Research provides the hardware development systems needed to enable customers to jump-start their projects to enable complete solutions for the next wave of innovation of battery-powered hand-held products."
Bo Sjosten, President, DSP Research
"Just over one year after the announcement of the C55x core, TI announces their second and third devices in the C55x DSP generation. Illico's most popular algorithms - fax and low bit rate modem - combined with TI's most popular DSP product family - C5000 - get customers to revenue faster than ever before."
Lien Nguyen, Co-Founder, Illico!
"Ease of code development and optimization on the C55x was impressive! We were able to port our JPEG2000 algorithms to the C55x, resulting in very dense code size and excellent performance ahead of our projected schedule. TI's C55x customers, using Image Power's compression technology combined with the new C5502 or C5509 DSPs, will improve image quality, speed up image processing, image transfer in Internet appliances, digital cameras, scanners and fax machines."
Jeff Brooks, Business Development Director, Image Power
"Code compatibility between the C54x and C55x DSP generations has greatly expedited our ability to deliver eXpressDSP-compliant algorithms to customers. Supporting the demand for the new price-performance leader C5502 and highly-integrated C5509 will be greatly facilitated due to TI's commitment to preserving code development. This allows us to provide world-class customizable products to our customers."
Aaron Caldwell, General Manager,
Imagine Technology, LLC
"Engineers love to find products that are a good value. The C5502 is a great value with 400MIPS for $9.95 in quantities of 10,000 units. And, with MESi's off-the-shelf telecom software products companies can get to market with a complete product priced to sell faster than ever."
Peter Miller, President and CEO, MESi
"New ideas and new media technologies drive the need for products like C5502, setting a new price/performance benchmark, and C5509, the most highly-integrated general purpose DSP. These two new products along with Spatializer's Digital OntheGoFXTM audio enhancement algorithms will allow customers to easily integrate digital audio capabilities into their next generation products."
Henry Mandell, CEO, Spatializer Audio Laboratories
"In addition to our proven algorithms for speech compression/enhancement, speaker ID, MP3, voice/fax over IP, GPS and telephony, SPIRITCorp.com is currently working on face recognition algorithms, all of which, are a perfect fit for the C5502 and highly-integrated C5509. We believe that customer creativity drives product definition and the combination of our algorithms and TI's DSPs will dramatically impact future products."
Andrew Sviridenko, President, SPIRITCorp.com
"Devices integrating voice communication, digital audio and entertainment are growing at a record pace. To stand out, products need to be differentiated through incorporation of unique features and superior performance. Proven audio and voice technologies from SRS Labs already enhance the user experience in millions of consumer products worldwide. Now the availability of these technologies on TI's DSP platforms provides powerful audio and voice enhancement capability to portable embedded devices. With TI's new C5502 and C5509 processors running SRS Labs' WOW audio enhancement algorithm and VIP voice intelligibility processor, the end customer now has a single chip solution to get them to market faster than ever with the features users are demanding."
Alan Kraemer, VP of Engineering, SRS Labs Inc.
"Streaming video is likely to be the next killer application driving the multi-million dollar hand-held device market. While the MPEG-4 standard is still evolving, a programmable hardware solution with constantly upgraded MPEG-4 compliant software is the fastest way to get an embedded video product to market. UB Video's MPEG-4 decoding and encoding algorithms are optimized to take advantage of the C55x generation's performance and bring video encode and decode to the consumer's pocket."
Faouzi Kossentini, Ph.D., President and CEO, UB Video
"Both the C5502 and the C5509 programmable DSPs are code-compatible with every member of the industry-leading TMS320C5000™ DSP platform, and can be incorporated into next-generation systems today with tools available from TI and members of its third-party network. TI has one of the most comprehensive design support programs in the industry allowing designers to get their products to market faster by taking advantage of TI's focused tools training taught by experienced product managers available online and in-person via seminars and dozens of hands-on workshops. Customer-focused answers from thousands of high caliber technical experts can be found on the TI's interactive web site and through the industry's largest network of third-party application developers with more than 400 members offering thousands of products."
Dennis Barrett, Product Marketing Manager, TMS320C5000™ DSP, Texas Instruments
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