TIDEP0036, Reference Design using TMS320C6657 to Implement Efficient OPUS Codec Solution

TIDEP0036, Reference Design provides an example of the ease of running optimized Opus encoder/decoder on the TMS320C6657 device. Since Opus supports a wide range of bit rates, frame sizes and sampling rates, all with low delay, it has applicability for voice communications, networked audio and even high performance audio processing application. This design also highlights the performance improvements achieved when implementing the Opus codec on a DSP vs. a general purpose processor like ARM. Depending upon the level of optimization of the code running on the general purpose processor, implementing the Opus Codec on a C66x DSP core can have 3X the performance of an ARM Cortex A-15 implementation. TMS320C66x DSPs support both audio and video codecs