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

Tensilica FloatingPoint KP1/KP6 DSPs

High-performance DSPs designed for floating-point-centric processing with ultra-low energy and small area Cadence® Tensilica® Flo…

Overview

High-performance DSPs designed for floating-point-centric processing with ultra-low energy and small area

Cadence® Tensilica® FloatingPoint KP1/KP6 DSPs provide high-performance floating-point computation throughput with low energy consumption and small area footprint. The configurability and extensibility of Tensilica FloatingPoint KP1/KP6 DSPs give the SoC designers flexibility to configure a floating-point DSP that meets their performance requirements with low energy and small area budgets. Tensilica FloatingPoint KP1/KP6 DSPs are optimized for applications in battery-operated devices, AI/ML, AR/VR, motor control, smart sensors, sensor fusion, ADAS, autonomous driving, etc.

Key features

  • VLIW parallelism issuing multiple concurrent operations per cycle
  • Xtensa LX Secure Mode
  • 128-bit and 512-bit SIMD
  • IEEE 754 vector floating-point
  • 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
  • TIE for easy extension and further performance enhancement

Applications

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

Specifications

Identity

Part Number
Tensilica FloatingPoint KP1/KP6 DSPs
Vendor
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Type
Silicon IP

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