TI Obsoletes FPGA

Mixes Arm cores with DSPs and programmable logic

by R. Colin Johnson - EETimes, Apr. 21, 2015 – 

PORTLAND, Ore. - Texas Instruments (TI) - king of the DSP - is at it again, this time targeting the FPGA market with a 9 processor jack-of-all-trades device capable of radically downsizing mammoth avionic, military, test and measurement and medical instruments - from backpack radars to portable magnetic resonance instruments (MRIs).

According to TI, the Keystone-II (66AK2L06) solution allows devices using it to be 66 percent smaller, consume 60 percent less power, cost 50 percent less and are 3-times faster to market than using an FPGA solution.

"Our newest Keystone II system-on-chip [SoC] has two Arm's Cortex A15 MPCore processors, four 1.2 GHz C66x DSPs [digital signal processors) and four programmable accelerators," Robert Ferguson, communications processors business development manager at TI told EE Times.

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