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CHICAGO - Telecom application development for digital signal processors (DSPs) tooka step forward last week as companies announced shrink-wrapped tools and newly opened platforms at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco.
LSI Logic Corp. (Milpitas, Calif.) demonstrated its ZOpen software framework for ZSP open architecture development. The rollout effectively completes the company's ZSP strategy by complementing its open DSP core architecture. By providing an open, easy-to-use platform with standardization features, LSI expects to simplify and accelerate software development around its ZSP DSP core.
"Companies such as Texas Instruments and Analog Devices have an open software architecture, but based around aproprietary DSP architecture," said Than Dao, director of LSI Logic's Advanced DSP Products Group. "The ZSP is available from multiple licensees, including Broadcom, Brecis, Virata and, more recently, IBM and Conexant. Tier 1 customers need multiple sources."
Dao described ZOpen...