FPGA-Based DSP - It's About Time

During your last DSP design did you open your box of tricks to find you have too much information to process in an efficient performancekost profile? DSP Systems Architects are becoming more frequently hindered by the lack of off-the-shelf performance obtainable from programmable DSP devices. Advances in multimedia and communications applications have evolved so rapidly that the performance required for these applications exceeds the processing capability that can be obtained from today's most advanced programmable DSP devices. This can lead to the assumption that using multiple DSP processors or a full-custom ASIC are the only possible solution.