Analog Devices Showcases Innovative Technology at the First Annual GSPx & International Signal Processing Conference.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NORWOOD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 2003 Analog Devices' Co-Founder and Chairman Ray Stata to present keynote speech; Company offers Blackfin, TigerSHARC and SHARC SHARC Super Harvard Architecture Computer SHARC Submillimeter High Angular Resolution Camera SHARC Swedish Highly Advanced Research Configuration SHARC Savannah Hilton Head Area Rocketry Club SHARC System Hardware Availability and Reliability Calculator demos, workshops and conference papers Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : ADI), a global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal processing applications, today announced its participation as a platinum sponsor at the first annual International Signal Processing Conference (ISPC ISPC Internet Service Providers Consortium ISPC International Signaling Point Code ISPC Input Syntax Punctuation (Alcatel) ISPC International Sound Programme Centre ISPC Interim System Planning Computer ISPC International Shetland Pony Committee ) and Global Signal Processing Expo (GSPx), taking place at the Hotel Intercontinental in Dallas, Texas from March 31 - April 3. Highlighting the conference will be a keynote speech by Ray Stata, co-founder and chairman of Analog Devices, on Tuesday, April 1 at 7:00 p.m. In his keynote, Mr. Stata will discuss the changing landscape of digital signal processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). . Among its other conference activities, Analog Devices will be providing a number of technical workshops and presenting conference papers as well as hosting product demos at its booth (#204). Among the products showcased will be the company's Blackfin(R), TigerSHARC(R) and SHARC(R) processors, as well as its award-winning development tools. Product Demonstrations at the Analog Devices Booth (#204) -- Blackfin Processors -- The Blackfin Processor demo will provide an implementation of a MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). image compression. ADI's Blackfin Processors combine best-in-class digital signal processing performance with microcontroller functionality and embedded operating system An operating system used in special-purpose applications (embedded systems). Embedded operating systems are typically very compact and often designed for real time operations. See embedded Linux, QNX, OS-9, Windows XP Embedded, Windows CE, VxWorks and Symbian OS. support to meet the computational demands and power constraints of today's embedded audio, video and communications applications, such as portable media players, digital still and video cameras, streaming A/V (1) (Audio/Video) Refers to equipment and applications that deal with sound and sight. The A/V world includes microphones, tape recorders, audio mixers, still and video cameras, film projectors, slide projectors, VCRs, CD and DVD players/recorders, amplifiers and applications, car telematics, smart handheld devices, video telephones and voice-over-IP systems. -- TigerSHARC Processors -- The TigerSHARC Processor demo will showcase the new 300 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. TigerSHARC Processor and will demonstrate its glueless scalability and unparalleled performance. With the ability to perform 2.4 billion multiply accumulates per second (GMACS GMACS Giga Multiply-Accumulate Operations Per Second GMACS Graphical Machine Automation Control System ) and 1.8 billion floating-point operations per second (GFLOPS See gigaFLOPS. GFLOPS - gigaflops ), the TigerSHARC Processor offers the industry's highest digital signal processing performance in both floating-point and fixed-point math. -- SHARC DSP--This demo will feature the SHARC Processor's best-in-class audio processing capability as well as its balanced architecture and rich peripheral set, allowing for ease-of-use and effective system integration. -- CROSSCORE(TM) Development Tools -- Analog Devices' award-winning CROSSCORE family of DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive development tools will be also demonstrated via the Blackfin EZ-KIT Lite using VisualDSP++(TM) 3.0 and the company's new high-performance emulator (HP-ICE). Product Workshops at Lalique Ballroom I: The Analog Devices' workshops will be presented in the morning and afternoon of Monday, March 31. -- Morning workshop - "Enhanced Blackfin Processors: An Architectural Description and Application," - Offers a description of the Blackfin architecture and describes the superset A group of commands or functions that exceed the capabilities of the original specification. Software or hardware components designed for the original specification will also operate with the superset product. However, components designed for the superset will not work with the original. of peripherals on the current Blackfin Processors. -- Afternoon workshop - "TigerSHARC Processor - The Next Generation in Multiprocessor DSP Architectures" - Focuses on the TigerSHARC Processor and discusses multiprocessing support, features and benefits unique to this high-performance device. Conference Papers at Lalique Ballroom I: Analog Devices' conference papers to be presented at the show include: -- "Achieving Determinism in DSPs with Pipeline and Cache," by Giuseppe Olivadoti, Technical Marketing Engineer and Matt Kuipers, Software Development Engineer -- "Enabling Low Cost Software Components," by Pat Moran, Development Manager, ADI's Edinburgh Design Centre -- "An Efficient Implementation of the G.728 Vocoder on the Blackfin DSP," by Sunder sun·der v. sun·dered, sun·der·ing, sun·ders v.tr. To break or wrench apart; sever. See Synonyms at separate. v.intr. To break into parts. n. A division or separation. Venkateswaran, Software Engineer; N. Vijayakumar, Senior Software Engineer; Manoj Arvind, Senior Software Engineer and S. Sivaramakrishnan, Senior Team Leader As well as a conference paper on Analog Devices' Blackfin Processor: -- "MPEG4 Video Encoder on an ADI Blackfin Processor for Digital Imaging Applications," by Ramkishor Korada, Emuzed DSP Collaborative Demonstrations at the Analog Devices' Third Party Partner Pavilion (Booth #212) Members of the Analog Devices DSP Collaborative, including Bittware, Danville Signal Processing, Transtech DSP and Accelerated Technology, will be demonstrating their latest product implementations involving Analog Devices based hardware and software solutions. About Analog Devices, Inc. Analog Devices is a leading manufacturer of precision high-performance integrated circuits used in analog and digital signal processing applications. The company is headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts and employs approximately 8,600 people worldwide. It has manufacturing facilities in Massachusetts, California, North Carolina, Ireland, the Philippines, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. Analog Devices' stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. and the company is included in the S&P 500 Index. Blackfin, SHARC and TigerSHARC are registered trademarks of Analog Devices, Inc. CROSSCORE, EZ-KIT Lite and VisualDSP++ are trademarks of Analog Devices, Inc. All other trademarks included herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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