Vendor: Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Category: DSP Core

Tensilica FloatingPoint KQ7/KQ8 DSPs

Super-high-performance DSPs specifically optimized for floating-point workload with exceptional PPA Cadence® Tensilica® FloatingP…

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Overview

Super-high-performance DSPs specifically optimized for floating-point workload with exceptional PPA

Cadence® Tensilica® FloatingPoint KQ7 and KQ8 DSPs provide one of the highest computational horsepower for floating-point processing with highly optimal area and power budgets. The high-performing Tensilica FloatingPoint DSPs deliver hundreds of GFLOPs, making them suitable to offload compute intensive floating-point processing. Tensilica FloatingPoint KQ7 and KQ8 DSPs are optimized for applications such as high-performance computing (HPC), hyperscaler, AI/ML, smart sensors, sensor fusion, motor control, ADAS, autonomous driving, etc.

Key features

  • VLIW parallelism issuing multiple concurrent operations per cycle
  • 512-bit and 1024-bit SIMD
  • IEEE 754 vector floating-point (HP, SP, DP)
  • Performance-optimized fused multiply-add (FMA)
  • 8b/16b/32b/64b integer ALU operations
  • Optimized for FFT operations
  • Enhanced complex data processing
  • Superior auto vectorization support

Applications

  • Automotive,
  • Communications,
  • Consumer Electronics,
  • Data Processing,
  • Industrial and Medical,
  • Military/Civil Aerospace,
  • Others

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Specifications

Identity

Part Number
Tensilica FloatingPoint KQ7/KQ8 DSPs
Vendor
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Type
Silicon IP

Provider

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
HQ: USA
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