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.