ConnX DSPs offer the best combination of high performance, low power, and small area

The wide range of Cadence Tensilica ConnX DSPs offers the best combination of high performance, low power, and small area to meet your application needs. From small and low-power ConnX 110 DSP up to the super-high-performance ConnX 230, these DSPs are designed for applications that control sensors and antennas and process the data they handle. Go with the industry's lowest power, most compact, and best-performing DSPs for applications, including radar, lidar, 5G/4G/LTE-A, Bluetooth, smartgrid, 802.11 modems, etc. ConnX DSPs are certified ISO 26262:2018 ASIL-compliant, making them suitable for use in safety-critical applications as well.

   

ConnX 110

ConnX 120

ConnX 220

ConnX 230

Xtensa Processor

  

LX

LX

NX

NX

SIMD Width

  

128

256

256

512

Acceleration

Radar (Fixed point FFT) Acceleration

RADIX4 and Symmetric FIR
 

Peak Search Acceleration

Supported
 

Polynomial Function support

Sin/Cosine/exponent, Recip/RSQRT
 

Communication Accelerator

  

Forward error connection (FEC) Accelerator

Data Type Support
 
  • Complex Fixed, Complex Float
  • 8-,16,32-bit Fixed point
  • Half Precision Floating Point (FP16)
  • Single Precision Floating Point (FP32)
  • Double Precision Floating Point (FP64)

Key Benefits

Optimized Instruction set

Promotes differentiation and performance enhancement

Scalability

A wide selection of DSPs ranging from small and low power to high performance

Software Portability

Software-compatible DSP family, making migration and DSP scalability easy

ISO26262:2018 Compliant

ASIL-compliant certified and equipped with both hardware and software safety mechanisms

Features

  • Built-in accelerations for radar, lidar, and communications processing
  • VLIW and SIMD parallelism issuing multiple concurrent operations per cycle
  • Optimized for complex data processing
  • IEEE 754 vector floating-point support
  • High throughput fixed-point MAC and floating-point FMA operations
  • High data throughput and virtually unlimited bandwidth from customizable FIFO, GPIO, and lookup interfaces
  • TIE for easy extension and further performance enhancement
  • Optimized libraries and application examples for easy software development

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