| | Audio gets configurable processor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | It may be hard to believe that electronic audio technology still continues to evolve after a century of intensive development but indeed it does, largely through the use of increasingly complex algorithms called codecs (coders/decoders) in an expanding universe of digital-audio standards and applications. |
 | | Tensilica’s original HiFi Audio Engine, based on the company’s configurable, 32-bit Xtensa V processor core, is an example of a configurable processor that has been optimized for audio applications with extra instructions and registers that accelerate the execution of audio-codec software. |
 | | Finally, the Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio Engine extensions are written in the TIE (Tensilica Instruction Extension) language and the TIE code for these extensions can be expanded, enhanced, pruned, or augmented by the SOC development team to suit the unique resource, power, and performance requirements of each SOC design. |
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