Xtensa LX3
Tensilica — November 2009

A high-performance customizable dataplane processor (DPU) optimized for DSP and control in SOCs with over 10 GigaMACs/sec performance
- The base Xtensa LX3 DPU configuration can reach speeds of over 1 GHz in 45nm process technology (45GS) with an area of just 0.044 mm2 and power of 0.015 mW/MHz
- Broadest choice of DSP options including 32-bit IEEE-754 compliant single-precision floating point unit & 64-bit IEEE-754 compliant double precision floating point accelerator
- Optional HiFi 2 Audio DSP, ConnX D2 16-bit DSP, and Vectra VLIW DSP engine
- Automated new instruction insertion for fool-proof customizations - write your own or just submit C code for analysis
- Multicore design support with modeling and high-performance simulations
- Natural connectivity to RTL blocks using direct GPIO and Queue interfaces
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