Editing Creative Zen (section)

== Hardware ==
Most models are built with [[Texas Instruments]]'s [[Texas Instruments TMS320|TMS320DA25x]]  [[ARM architecture]] and [[digital signal processor]] that makes up the [[Central processing unit|CPU]], while the operating system used is Texas Instruments [[DSP/BIOS]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=22bf5c31bc007a980037872ac2a29638&topic=3320.375|title=Creative Zen Vision:M|publisher=Rockbox forums|access-date=2008-01-11}}</ref> The peripheral circuits take care of all media decoding without any accelerator chips. The [[touchpad]]s are managed by [[Synaptics]] controllers.

The newer [[Creative ZEN#ZEN|ZEN]] players uses [[SigmaTel]]'s [[STMP3700]] ARM, described to be "designed specifically for portable devices".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/33837/97/|title=Creative launches Zen player based on new media processor|last=Raby|first=Mark|website=Tgdaily.com|access-date=2007-11-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071201220827/http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/33837/97/|archive-date=2007-12-01|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Nucleus RTOS]] makes up the base of their OSes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=3320.360|title=Creative Zen Vision:M|publisher=Rockbox forums|access-date=2007-11-24}}</ref>