ChipWrights Named EDN 2002 Innovation of the Year Award Finalist.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 4, 2003 ChipWrights, Inc., a leader in 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). (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 ) technology for mobile imaging applications, has been chosen from hundreds of candidates as a finalist in the EDN 2002 Innovation of the Year awards competition. Sponsored by EDN Magazine, this exclusive awards program is dedicated to honoring truly outstanding engineering products in the electronics industry. Products/technologies qualifying for a 2002 EDN Innovation award were introduced and began to be commercially marketed from January 1, 2002 through December 31, 2002. There were seventeen product/technology areas eligible for consideration, in addition to the Innovator of the Year Award. A panel of EDN's technical editors selected finalist products in each category. In the DSP category, the ChipWrights' CW4011 visual signal processor (ViSP) was selected. A complete list of finalists in all categories will appear in the March 6, 2003 issue of EDN and on the EDN Access web site (www.edn.com). Introduced in April 2002, ChipWrights' CW4011 ViSP is the industry's first application specific DSP designed specifically for image and video processing Video processing techniques are used in video codecs, video players and other devices. For example—commonly only design and video processing is different in TV sets of different manufactures. . It offers designers a powerful, single programming target, to ease development of differentiated, next-generation portable digital imaging and video devices at a lower overall system cost. This embedded device can be programmed to implement a wide variety of image-processing algorithms. It is innovative because it is built on a new 32-bit fixed-point processor architecture comprising an innovative single instruction multiple data (SIMD (Single Instruction stream Multiple Data stream) A computer that performs one operation on multiple sets of data. It is typically used to add or multiply eight or more sets of numbers at the same time for multimedia encoding and rendering as well as scientific )/Vector DSP and a RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. microprocessor. ChipWrights developed this architecture "from a clean sheet of paper," based on the specific characteristics and requirements of image data. Winners of the 2002 Innovation/Innovator of the Year Awards will be chosen by EDN's readers through an online ballot on the EDN Access Web site (www.edn.com). We encourage you to visit the EDN Web site to review the magazine's comments on the CW4011 visual signal processor. Finalists will be honored and winning products will be announced at EDN's Innovation/Innovator Awards ceremony on April 22, 2003 at the Pan Pacific Hotel in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and published in the May 1, 2003 issue of EDN. About EDN EDN, the premier design magazine of the electronics industry, is published by Reed Business Information Reed Business Information is a large business publisher in the United States, United Kingdom, continental Europe, Australia and Asia. It is a division of Reed Elsevier. In 2005, Reed Business Information started the Quill Awards, a literary award broadcast on NBC. . Headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts The City of Newton in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, is an important residential suburb of Boston, which abuts it on the east. According to the 2000 census, the population of the Newton was 83,829, making it the tenth largest city in the state. , EDN serves the vital information needs of design engineers and engineering managers worldwide. The EDN franchise includes EDN, EDN Europe, EDN Asia, EDN China, EDN Japan and EDN Access, the only full-content, EOEM publication and Web site. About ChipWrights ChipWrights is a fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. specializing in the design, development, and marketing of a new class of digital signal processing-based devices called visual signal processors (ViSPs). Built on an innovative architecture comprising a RISC processor RISC processor [Reduced Instruction Set Computer], computer arithmetic-logic unit that uses a minimal instruction set, emphasizing the instructions used most often and optimizing them for the fastest possible execution. and a highly-integrated, scalable array of DSP vector processing units, this fully programmable, low cost, low power, and very high performance system-on-chip (SoC) family is ideal for building competitive products in the mobile digital imaging and video markets. Applications range from real-time image capture/presentation to image transmission/network media infrastructure. ChipWrights provides a complete software development tool suite and hardware reference designs. Headquartered in the United States, the company has offices in Newton, MA and Tokyo, Japan. Additional information is available at www.chipwrights.com. |
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