TI vs ADI

"Rest of the world," also includes processors which were not designed
for DSP, but still we land up using them. I've worked with a number of
cases, where an 8-bit MCU has landed up on a filtering application.

Rather than debating over which company has a greater market share, or
what each company claims about its processor, the choice of processor
is generally made up either by :
1. "the management" - generally means someone saw the market research
report ;)
2. "whats already available in the company"
3. which goodies are thrown in by the chip vendor / distributor
4. what the "client thinks" he / she wants
5. and not the least, whats the client's budget
As a result, (we) the DSP practitioner / engineer land up writting
code for a system that we didn't exactly choose.

And then there are people who can't get enough with DSP chips..... I
have a friend working on a JPEG compression core in VHDL.


Aditya Sane