High Performance Enhancements to C6000 Family Enable 3G Wireless Basestation Solutions

Mr. Steven D. Krueger

Wireless Infrastructure Group
Texas Instruments
Dallas, TX

Friday, November 2nd, 3:00 PM, ENS 637

Abstract

The C6416 from Texas Instruments has combined new ISA features with on-chip coprocessors to create the highest performance basestation solution available. The seminar will describe the ISA extensions which improve the processor performance compared to the C62xx, TI's first generation VLIW processor. In addition to ISA extensions, the memory architecture and co-processors all combine to provide an optimized solution for 3G basestations.

Biography

Mr. Steven D. (Steve) Krueger received his S.M. in Computer Science, and S.B. in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. Mr. Krueger is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in TI's C6000 DSP Architecture Roadmap organization where has responsibilities for instruction set architecture definition, compatibility and extension. He maintains the detailed instruction set specifications used internally by both IC designers and compiler writers.

Mr. Krueger has previously worked on system and instruction set architecture for several TI and other microprocessors. He recently collaborated with ARM Ltd. on the requirements and definition of the ARM v6 architecture. While in TI's SPARC processor product group, Mr. Krueger served as TI's representative to SPARC International's SPARC Architecture Committee and participated in the development of SPARC version 9, the 64-bit extended SPARC architecture. During this time he was also active in the IEEE 1754 standards effort to specify a standard processor architecture.

In the 1980's, Mr. Krueger was in TI's Computer Science Laboratory where his research interests were computer architecture and hardware/software interfaces. He was responsible for the architecture of the Explorer Lisp Machine processor and its successors.

Mr. Krueger joined Texas Instruments in 1980 and has been with the company for over twenty years.

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