Applications for Digital Signal Processors

DSPs bring computing performance, real-time processing, and power efficiency to diverse applications ranging
from sensors to servers. What can you do with digital signal processors? Look below for solutions on a variety
of DSP applications

Machine Vision

Avionics & Defense

High Performance Computing (HPC)

Video Encoding/Decoding

Biometrics

Machine Vision
Machine vision (MV) refers to both industrial and non-industrial applications where operational guidance is
provided to equipment for the execution of functions based on the capture and analytical processing of images.
In essence, this is providing "sight" or "vision" to otherwise "blind" equipment. This greatly enhances the
capabilities of the equipment, resulting in improved product quality, increased productivity and decreased costs.
Machine vision is extensively used in factory automation for automated inspection and robot guidance. Machine
vision is also found in security systems, currency inspection machines, and printers/scanners.
TI offers a wide range of processing solutions for machine vision applications. TI's DSP-based solutions
provide the best-in-class performance for real-time embedded analytics processing with scalable solutions from
single camera solutions to large, high performance computing systems used in applications like wafer
inspection. TI also provides easy to use software libraries as part of our free Multicore Software Development
Kits (MCSDK) to speed development of machine vision solutions.

Applications

Products

Embedded Machine Vision

ARM+DSP

OMAP-L138

OMAPL-138 EVM

DSP

C674x, C665x

C674 EVM, C6657 EVM

DSP

C665x

C6657 EVM

Printers, Scanners, Currency

Getting Started

Applications

Products

Getting Started

Smart Cameras

ARM+DSP

OMAP-L138

OMAPL-138 EVM

Large scale inspection

ARM+DSP

66AK2Hx

66K2H EVM

DSP

C667x

C6678 EVM

Avionics & Defense

TI's commercial processors, including single and multicore ARM, DSP, and ARM+DSP, are well-suited to
defense and avionics applications including radar, electronic warfare, avionics, and software defined radios
(SDR). Our processors feature industrial temperature ranges, ECC on on-chip memory, secure boot, security
features. Software support includes mainline Linux, TI RTOS, and most commercial RTOSes.

Size Weight and Power (SWAP)

Many applications in defense and avionics have tight size, weight and power requirements and require
optimized SoCs which can deliver the required performance within the allotted SWaP budget. TI is focused on
delivering the most performance-per-watt using standard ARM cores and TI C66x DSP cores to create scalable
device families from single core to multicore, heterogeneous SoCs.

Applications

Products

Getting Started

Radar/Electronic
Warfare

ARM+DS
P

66AK2Hx

66K2H EVM

DSP

C667x

C665x EVM, C667x

EVM

Avionics

ARM

AM5K2Ex

AM5K2E EVM

Software Defined
Radio (SDR)

ARM+DS
P

OMAP-L1x, 66AK2Hx

66K2H EVM, OMAPL138 EVM

Applications

Single Board
Computers

Products

Getting Started

DSP

C674x, C665x, C667x

C674x EVM, C665x

EVM, C667x EVM

ARM

AM335x, AM437x, AM5K2

Ex

AM335x
EVM, AM437x
EVM, AM5K2Ex EVM

High Performance Computing (HPC)

As the worlds of High Performance Computing and Big Data systems are evolving, customers are demanding
customized, scalable solutions that are better optimized for their needs. TI's high performance ARM+DSP
devices are used in HP's Proliant m800 server cartridge as part of HP's overall Moonshot server strategy which
provides systems targeting specific workloads.
TI's high-end ARM+DSP processors combine great signal processing/compute performance with low latency
and low power consumption to enable high performance and high performance embedded computing
applications. With over 200 GFLOPS/device and high-speed on-chip interfaces, TI makes it easy to design
world-class compute systems of any size, including large-scale compute systems.

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Applications

Products

High Performance Compute

ARM+DSP

66AK2Hx

TI Software Kit for HPC

DSP

C6678

C6678 EVM

Video Encoding/Decoding

Getting Started

TI's C66x multicore SoCs provide power and cost-efficient, high-density programmable video coding solutions.
Off-the-shelf PCIe cards provide simple and fast upgrade capability to enable high-performance encoding of
new standards such as H.265. TI's optimized video coding libraries and multi-chip video software framework
enable solutions to be brought to market quickly.
MCSDK VIDEO 2.1 Demo Guide

Video Codecs
The following video codecs are optimized for the C66x DSP family and are available for download free of
charge:

H.265 (Encode/Decode)

H.264 BP/HP (Encode/Decode)

H.264 MP (Decode)

MPEG4 (Encode/Decode)

MPEG2 (Encode/Decode)

JPEG (Encode/Decode)

JPEG2000 (Encode/Decode)

AVC Intra/Ultra (Encode)

PCIe Cards
Get started quickly with these PCIe cards from Advantech.

Applications

Products

Getting Started

High Performance Encoding

DSP

C6678

C6678 EVM

Multichannel Transcoding

DSP

C6678

C6678 EVM

Biometrics
TI's DSPs and ARM-based embedded processors have a proven track record in embedded biometric
applications. TI's C674x DSPs provide higher performance for greater imaging resolution and a larger database
of identities. For high-end systems, TI's OMAP-L1x DSP+ARM9 processors support advanced connectivity
options, high-level operating systems for graphical user interfaces and optimized performance capabilities.

Biometrics Solutions White Paper (PDF 1.62MB)

Applications

Products

Iris Biometrics

ARM+DSP

OMAP-L1x

OMAPL-138 EVM

DSP

C674x, C665x

C674 EVM, C6657 EVM

ARM

AM335x

AM335x Starter Kit

Fingerprint Biometrics

Getting Started