Shipments of Merchant Digital Signal Processing Boards to Increase
3/17/2004 - According to a recent report by Venture Development Corporation: "Digital Signal Processing (DSP): Global Market Demand Analysis", unit volume shipments of merchant Digital Signal Processing boards are projected to increase at a 1.9% compound annual growth rate (CAGR).
However, when segmenting use by type of processor, VDCs research reveals:
- Unit shipments of boards using DSP processors alone are projected to decline slightly, with a CAGR of -0.2% over the forecast period of 2003-2008, while.
- Shipments of boards that include DSP processors combined with Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are expected to increase at a CAGR of 4.3%, more than offsetting this decline.
Embedded Hardware Practice Director, Eric Gulliksen offers insight into this trend: "FPGAs and traditional DSP processors are not competing technologies, but actually complement one another. Each has its own strong points. DSP processors are most appropriate for relatively complex tasks with limited bandwidth requirements, while FPGAs may be partitioned and programmed to perform simple, repetitive tasks in parallel when high bandwidth is required. Thus FPGAs can be used as highly efficient "front ends" for Digital Signal Processing."
About VDC
Founded in 1971, VDC is a technology market research and consulting firm that specializes in industrial and commercial electronics, computing, communications, software and power systems markets.
"Digital Signal Processing (DSP): Global Market Demand Analysis" is available in 2 volumes:
Volume 1: Merchant DSP Boards Vertical Market/Application Opportunity Analysis
Volume 2: Silicon Architectures and Software Development Tools
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