Scalable and Programmable Co-processor

Overview

Simpulse’s Pulsar DSP IP Core is a scalable and programmable co-processor for the signal processing of complex embedded digital signal processing (DSP) systems. Pulsar’s silicon intellectual property (IP) is a scalable processor architecture that perfectly allies hardware computational power with the flexibility of software.

Key Features

  • Hardware scalability to offer the best cost-performance trade-off
    • Hardware complexity can be adapted to the application
    • Low power solution (specialized hardware operator to reduce the power consumption)
    • Highly parallel single instruction multiple data (SIMD) processor architecture
  • Programmable Software-defined solution for flexible DSP components
    • Flexible signal processing circuits with reduced development effort (20x lower than hard-wired design)
    • Programmable Software signal processing core that avoids the development of dedicated hard-wired accelerators
    • Easy support of standard revisions
    • Easy product maintenance
    • Easy design of multi-standard applications (multi-standard support: 4G/5G, LTE, DVB-T2, DVB-S2, …)
  • Enables complex DSP and high data-rate communication system design
    • Complex DSP algorithms management
    • Complex vector processing optimization
    • Very high system performance and computing power
  • Can be optimized for FPGA and ASIC targets
    • Easy migration from FPGA to ASIC
    • FPGA prototyping before tape-out

Benefits

  • Pulsar DSP IP Core offers THE most flexible and reliable solution for the design of complex high-end signal processing electronic circuits

Block Diagram

Scalable and Programmable Co-processor Block Diagram

Deliverables

  • Pulsar RTL hardware design in synthesizable VHDL code
  • Pulsar C++ bit and cycle accurate model available for very fast C++/VHDL/Verilog simulation (1000 time faster than synthesizable VHDL model)
  • Associated development tools, comprising starting libraries, Makefile add-ons, sample codes and simulation platform

Technical Specifications

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