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Rulph
Chassaing leaves rich legacy of students and books
Renowned DSP educator and author Rulph Chassaing died May
10.
Most recently an adjunct professor of electrical engineering
at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Rulph taught classes and
workshops on DSP using TI technology for nearly two decades.
He also wrote five books based on TI DSPs over the years.
By helping faculty, students and engineers worldwide deepen
their understanding of theory and applications through real-time
DSP hands-on exercises, Rulph helped lay the groundwork for
today’s proliferation of DSPs in numerous products and
industries.
Colleagues and former students alike in the DSP community
expressed their sense of loss upon hearing the news. Wrote
one: “This is a very sad day for all us who have known
him in whatever little way.”
Yet Rulph’s legacy will continue through the hundreds
of college students he taught over the years, through his
popular books and through his workshops, which will continue
thanks to the efforts of his close collaborators.
More information regarding this highly regarded member of
the DSP education community is available on the memorial web
site.
TI
Launches Three New Floating-Point DSPs and New Pro Audio Development
Kit (PADK)
Ideal for high-quality audio applications such as mixers,
effects boxes and medical applications, TI’s new DSPs
and development tool enable development work to begin immediately.
Based on a new C-efficient, VLIW architecture, the TMS320C6722,
TMS320C6726 and TMS320C6727 DSPs have native 32-bit and double-precision
64-bit floating-point functionality and provide improved efficiency
of high-precision audio processing. The PADK includes all
the hardware and software required to instantly begin design
work, eliminating the need for prototyping hardware. It consists
of real-world, pro-audio algorithms and software examples
for a reduced development cycle. Visit the Web site for more
details.
Attend
Two-day Boston Workshop in August: Teaching with TMS320C6000™
DSK
Make plans to attend the popular two-day workshop
“Teaching with C6000 DSKs” Aug. 22–23 from
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Worchester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
in Worchester, Mass. This workshop will be taught using Dr.
Rulph Chassaing’s teaching materials and by two of his
close colleagues, WPI DSP Professor Rick Brown and Jay Gomes.
Gomes has taught many workshops with Chassaing and he has
been a collaborator on multiple textbook materials. Held in
WPI’s fully equipped DSP laboratory, this hands-on workshop
will be will emphasize the laboratory component of DSP with
real-time examples that include waveform generation, FIR/IIR
and adaptive filters and FFT.
Attendees will receive a free copy of Chassaing's textbook
"Digital Signal Processing and Applications with the
C6713 and the C6416 DSK," a DSP Starter Kit and a copy
of Code Composer Studio™ software ($510 value).
Space is limited, reserve
your seat now.
New
HPI Daughtercard for the 6713 DSK Now Available from Educational
DSP LLC
Educational
DSP LLC, a member of TI’s DSP Third Party Network, announces
the availability of a new
host port interface (HPI) daughtercard for TI’S
TMS320C6713 DSK. Only $75 plus shipping, this versatile daughtercard
adds a range of new capabilities to the TMS320C6713 DSK, including:
• In its Host Services mode it provides serial, parallel
and USB access from the host computer to the DSK's HPI port,
allowing stand-alone applications development to permit a
PC host to download software to the DSP and then control its
operation -ideal for student projects.
• In its DSP Services mode resources can be directly
accessed by the DSP software, allowing DSP applications to
use the bidirectional serial and USB communications, control
up to 16 digital input/output pins with individual direction
control and read up to eight 12-bit analog inputs.
• It does not interfere with the standard DSK daughtercard
connectors or footprint, permitting other daughtercards to
be used simultaneously.
Learn more now.
Free
Online Training: High-Performance Applications Using Serial
RapidIO™ Available on the New TMS320C6455 DSP
The new C6455 DSP offers Serial RapidIO™ and 2 MB Memory
for your video infrastructure, telecom and imaging applications.
Take the free online training course to learn how the C6455
DSP’s programming flexibility allows developers to keep
pace with standard changes and to quickly implement multiple
voice and video codecs in system designs. Register today.
Korean
Book Explores TMS320C6000™ Processors
Written in Korean, ”Experiments using TMS320C6000™
Processors” is a useful resource for engineers as well
as electrical and computer engineering students learning about
DSP devices, designing DSP systems through experiments and
teaching through project work. Published in paperback, this
book includes a CD-ROM containing useful projects using ND-Tech's
DSP STAR Personal Hardware with TI’s TMS320C6711 processor
module. It also contains applications on DSP theory and communication
theory, and it addresses implementation issues such as hardware
design, interrupt control, enhanced direct memory access (EDMA)
control, timer, flash boot code and real-time data exchange
(RTDX). Order
your copy today.
Nanotechology
Special Report – Download Your Free Copy Today
TI's Dr. Robert R. Doering looks at the future of nanotechnology.
His article in the 2004 SIA Annual Report is titled “Investment
and Innovation: Solving the Grand Challenges of Nanoelectronics.”
Download today!
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Learn
to Analyze Digital Video Transport Streams
Digital video broadcasts feature not only millions of digital
data bytes that must be error-free, but also multiple video,
audio, data and program guide transport streams that must
be perfectly in sync. Small errors are commonplace and have
the potential to derail a broadcast and cause costly blackouts.
These errors can surface intermittently, making them extremely
difficult to identify, understand and solve. Find out how
detection and resolution of these problems can be simplified
at the Designline website.
TI –
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University Highlight:
Centre for Electronics Design and Technology, Indian Institute
of Science, Bangalore, India
Originating more than 100 years ago, the Indian Institute
of Science (IISc) materialized "to promote original investigations
in all branches of learning and to utilize them for the benefit
of India," said its founder Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata.
Over the last century IISc has established itself as a premier
research institute in India.
The Centre for Electronics
Design and Technology (CEDT) was established in 1974 at
the IISc in Bangalore with the joint support of the governments
of India and Switzerland. Now an independent centre in the
division of electrical sciences, it has close contact with
industry so as to pursue research, development and teaching
that is of relevance to industry.
The collaboration between CEDT and Texas Instruments India
Ltd. began in 1998 with the creation of a full TI DSP laboratory
at CEDT called the TI DSP Centre. The centre includes hardware,
software tools and an invigorating lab environment for development
work, and it houses development facilities based on TI’s
TMS320C2000, TMS320C55X, TMS320C6000 and OMAP families of
processors. The lab also has high-speed oscilloscopes and
logic-state analyzer facilities. The laboratory is used by
IISc students for research and development, and it’s
also a venue for DSP course laboratory sessions taught at
IISc. In addition its facilities are available for use by
industry for product development under an IISc consultancy
and innovations program.
Examples of interesting projects include:
- An OMAP-based handheld device that includes all hardware,
firmware and software.
- Several high-performance motor drive and control systems
based on the C2000 used in research and industrial products.
- A virtual lab for conducting experiments from a remote
site through the Internet.
- A digital PBX for a United States start-up company using
the TMS320C54X processor. The incubation of the company
took place in the TI DSP Centre, and now the company has
moved to its own premises in Bangalore.
Leading of the TI DSP center is Professor and CEDT Chairman
HS Jamadagni. He views the CEDT-TI relationship as the best
among the university-industry relationships in India. |
