Nov. 3, 2009 (PR Newswire) -- DALLAS, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced the availability of the industry's most power efficient, six-core DSP (digital signal processor), the TMS320C6472, targeted at process-intensive applications requiring low power consumption. To help evaluate the performance of the C6472 devices more easily and affordably, TI is also offering a multicore processors evaluation module (EVM), the TMDXEVM6472, for USD $349.

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With the C6472, TI has broken the power performance barrier by fully optimizing the device for applications where performance per watt is a critical requirement. The C6472 DSP offers the lowest power consumption with the highest processing performance of any multicore DSP with the total of 3GHz performance in the market, performing at 3.7W performance and 0.15 mW/MIPS. TI's power-efficient C6472 was designed to support applications that drive many channels, demand maximum performance density and for which designers must have access to sophisticated functions. Additionally, many applications utilizing the C6472 will not require any external memory, further improving the power profile and cost effectiveness of the device. These devices are ideal for markets such as high-end industrial, test and measurement, communication, medical imaging, high-end imaging and video, and blade server. TI provides extensive support for the C6472, including an evaluation module, robust software libraries and a third-party ecosystem, to further facilitate the process of writing code that runs optimally on multicore devices.