TMS320C6418 pdf datasheet

The TMS320C64x™ DSPs (including the TMS320C6418 device) are the highest-performance fixed-point DSP generation in the TMS320C6000™ DSP platform. The TMS320C6418 (C6418) device is based on the second-generation high-performance, advanced VelociTI™ very-long-instruction-word (VLIW) architecture (VelociTI.2™) developed by Texas Instruments (TI). The high-performance, lower-cost C6418 DSP enables customers to reduce system costs for telecom, software radio, Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting (DTTB), and digital Broadcast Satellite/Communication Satellite (BS/CS) applications. The C64x™ is a code-compatible member of the C6000™ DSP platform.

With performance of up to 4800 million instructions per second (MIPS) at a clock rate of 600 MHz, the C6418 device offers cost-effective solutions to high-performance DSP programming challenges. The C6418 DSP possesses the operational flexibility of high-speed controllers and the numerical capability of array processors. The C64x. DSP core processor has 64 general-purpose registers of 32-bit word length and eight highly independent functional units—two multipliers for a 32-bit result and six arithmetic logic units (ALUs)—with VelociTI.2™ extensions. The VelociTI.2™ extensions in the eight functional units include new instructions to accelerate the performance in video and imaging applications and extend the parallelism of the VelociTI™ architecture. The C6418 can produce four 16-bit multiply-accumulates (MACs) per cycle for a total of 2400 million MACs per second (MMACS), or eight 8-bit MACs per cycle for a total of 4800 MMACS. The C6418 DSP also has application-specific hardware logic, on-chip memory, and additional on-chip peripherals similar to the other C6000™ DSP platform devices.