Cadence® Tensilica® FloatingPoint KQ7 and KQ8 DSPs provide one of the highest computational horsepower for floating-point processing with highly optimal area and power budgets. The high-performing Tensilica FloatingPoint DSPs deliver hundreds of GFLOPs, making them suitable to offload compute intensive floating-point processing. Tensilica FloatingPoint KQ7 and KQ8 DSPs are optimized for applications such as high-performance computing (HPC), hyperscaler, AI/ML, smart sensors, sensor fusion, motor control, ADAS, autonomous driving, etc.
Performance, Power, and Area
DSPs with exceptional PPA specifically designed for floating-point-centric processing
Ultra-High Performance
Up to 1024-bit SIMD with performance-optimized FMA and other performance-enhancing features
Scalability
ISA consistent with ultra-low energy and small Tensilica FloatingPoint KP1/KP6 DSPs
Software Portability
Common floating-point ISA promotes easy software migration between DSPs
Extensible and Configurable
Customizable instruction set promotes differentiation and performance enhancement
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VLIW parallelism issuing multiple concurrent operations per cycle - 512-bit and 1024-bit SIMD
- IEEE 754 vector floating-point (HP, SP, DP)
- Performance-optimized fused multiply-add (FMA)
- 8b/16b/32b/64b integer ALU operations
- Optimized for FFT operations
- Enhanced complex data processing
- Superior auto vectorization support
- TIE for easy extension and further performance enhancement
- Optimized Eigen, NatureDSP, Math, and SLAM libraries for easy software development
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