The announcement comes about one month after TI had announced its previously fastest DSP, a 720 MHz device. The 1 GHz DSP demonstration was completed using a .13 micron process, but will be manufactured on a 90 nm process. It is scheduled for availability in the first half of next year.

"This is a historic moment for TI and real time signal processing," said Tom Engibous, chairman, president, and chief executive of TI. "One gigahertz is an enormous milestone for DSP which even before this development had leapfrogged microprocessing as the primary catalyst for innovation and growth in electronics."

Applications that will be able to take advantage of the increase performance capabilities of a 1 GHz DSP include both wireless and wired telecom infrastructure equipment which have a requirement for an increased number of voice and data channels supported in a given area, said Ray Simar, TI fellow and advanced DSP architectures manager.

In video and imaging, the greater performance would allow for an increased number of video streams supported in a given application, as well as machine vision tools with higher resolutions, he said.

In the home, 1 GHz performance will lead to the development of products such a media center for viewing of high-definition TV on a variety of entertainment and productivity devices, including TVs, PCs, and PDAs, with no wires, while simultaneously recording high-definition content for later viewing, Simar said.

Researchers at the University of Southern California are developing artificial vision equipment utilizing high performance DSPs. A 1 GHz DSP would improve the visibility possible in implanted electronic systems in a human retina from a current 16 pixels, to 1,000 pixels. At 1,000 pixels, the artificial vision equipment could help create images that show both shape and light texture for vision impaired people, Simar said.

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