MIPS-laden processors hit the road running: packing high-performance compute engines and plenty of peripheral support features, two new processors meet the increasingly voracious demands of telematics. (Leapfrog: First Look).(Analog Devices' Blackfin DSP and Motorola's MPC5200, a PowerPC-based RISC CPU) From: Electronic Design | Date: August 4, 2003| Author: Bursky, Dave; Wong, William | COPYRIGHT 2003 Penton Media, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Over the past decade, the amount of incabin electronic systems in a car has exploded. Due to cost concerns, many telematics systems have been added like patches in a quilt, each containing a lowcost processoi; memory, communications interface, and other functions. Yet as applications are added, more MIPS are needed to perform all required computations. Distributing MIPS across a large number of individual processors significantly duplicates silicon resources. A processor with enoug...