The ultra-low-power C5517 DSP is now available and ready to make a big splash in the power-hungry audio and vision applications.
The C5517 is ideal for analytic applications – such as wearable technology, because it is capable of extracting motion information, visual motion tracking and more. Wearable technology brings smart, dynamic processing to static mediums to improve interaction with the world.
This technological revolution comes with a number of challenges that must be addressed before productizing the innovation, such as size constraint, power consumption and performance. To improve power consumption and meet the mathematical and real-time requirements designers can turn to DSP architecture. To achieve long battery cycles, the architecture must focus on efficiently balancing performance and power consumption. While DSP architecture can vary in size, the low-power variants focus on highly efficient performance during operation reducing the power consumption of the algorithms used to extract useful information.
Power consumption is important in wearable technology because it allows customers to not worry about the battery operation for several days, weeks or months. Ultra-low power consumption also enables cool device operation in tight in enclosures. No one likes an overheating wearable! Cool technology must come with cool esthetics, and DSPs are a perfect processor due to their small size with large processing capabilities.
Can you think of any other reasons why a DSP is ideal for wearable technology?
You can find the original blog post on this topic here.
Additional resources:
- Fuel your power-hungry audio and video applications with a DSP of your own!
- Listen to a TI expert explain how the C5517 reduces the footprint for analytic applications.
- Learn to create low-power vision applications with the C5517 in this video.
