coverstory By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor

u WELCOME to the 31st annual EDN / Di- rectory. The number of companies and devices the directory lists continues to grow and change. The size of this year’s table of devices has grown more than NEW OFFERINGS 25% from last year’s. Also, despite the fact that a number of companies have disappeared from the list, the number of companies participating in this year’s CONTINUE TO INCLUDE directory has still grown by 10%. So what? Should this growth and change in the companies and devices the directory lists mean anything to you? TARGETED, INTEGRATED One thing to note is that this year’s directory has experienced more compa- ny and product-line changes than the previous few years. One significant type PERIPHERAL SETS THAT SPAN of change is that more companies are publicly offering software-programma- ble processors. To clarify this fact, not every company that sells processor prod- ALL ARCHITECTURE SIZES. ucts decides to participate in the directory. One reason for not participating is that the companies are selling their processors only to specific customers and are not yet publicly offering those products. Some of the new companies par- ticipating in this year’s directory have recently begun making their processors available to the engineering public. Another type of change occurs when a company acquires another company or another company’s product line. Some of the acquired product lines are no longer available in their current form, such as the MediaQ processors that Nvidia acquired or the Triscend products that Arm acquired. Those architec- tures and technologies may publicly resurface in the next year as different prod-

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ucts. The recent creation of As for the directory contents itself, this print version con- Freescale, a spinoff of Motoro- tains an alphabetical company-and-product summary to give la, is similar to last year’s spinoff you a high-level overview of this year’s participating compa- of Renesas from and nies, their products, and any product or development-tool Mitsubishi; these types of spin- highlights from the last year.You can access the tables exclu- offs allow the new companies to sively at the Web version of this directory at EDN’s Web site, better focus on being more suc- www.edn.com, as a set of PDF files. The site provides multi- cessfully competitive with their ple versions of the tables, sorting the data across multiple products. columns. The growth in the size and company-participation rate in We welcome your feedback about the directory, because it the directory suggests that these changes are not an industry can help us to make the directory more useful to you. Please consolidation but rather are consistent with a budding or ex- let us know what types of information, such as development pected resurgence in embedded-design starts. This directo- tools and third-party-support cross-indexing for each device, ry includes only software-programmable you’d like the directory to include. Send your comments to and , including processor cores and pro- [email protected]. If this directory helps you choose a grammable-logic devices with embedded-processor cores. processor, please let the vendor know how you found its part. The directory does not include DSPs; EDN lists DSPs in the If you cannot find your favorite processor company or de- annual DSP directory, which it publishes six months out of vices, please notify both that company and EDN that you phase with this one. missed reading about them in the directory.

ACTEL CORP (WWW.ACTEL.COM) family offers an EVP (enhanced- performance embedded Geode SOPC (system-on-programmable- Actel’s 8-bit Core8051 micro- virus-protection) capability for a processors that the company built chip)-builder tool that Altera’s controller core targets consumer, more secure computing environ- on the AMD Athlon core. The Quartus II design software fea- automotive, industrial, and military ment, and it features the Direct ÉlanSC5220 controller covers tures. Altera continues to support and aerospace applications operat- Connect Architecture that directly the datacomm, telecom, and infor- its first-generation Nios embedded ing on Actel’s nonvolatile, single- connects the mation-appliance markets. processor. chip ProASIC Plus, Axcelerator, SX- and I/O to the CPU to improve the AMD’s MIPS-based Alchemy Altera’s Excalibur embedded- A, and RTSX-S FPGAs. The core overall system performance and microprocessors target PDAs, Web processor offerings integrate an executes all ASM51 instructions in efficiency. tablets, and portable and wired ARM922T processor subsystem one cycle and features 13 four-pri- The AMD64 family of proces- Internet-access devices and gate- with Altera’s programmable-logic ority-level interrupts, 32 I/O ports, sors extends the x86 ISA across way applications. This year saw the architecture. The Excalibur devices two timers, and a programmable 32- and 64-bit platforms. The AMD introduction of the AMD Alchemy allow you to operate the processor . You can combine the processor targets servers Au1550 security-network proces- in stand-alone mode before con- Core8051 with other Actel IP cores and workstations, and the AMD sor. The Au1550 processor’s low figuring the FPGA. Altera’s SOPC to enhance its functions. Athlon 64 processor and Mobile power consumption makes it suit- Builder system-integration tool Actel’s Platform8051 develop- AMD Athlon 64 processor target able for battery-powered and connects the processor, peripher- ment kit includes the IP cores, soft- desktop and mobile PCs. The AMD power-over-Ethernet applications. als, and user-defined peripherals ware tools, and target silicon that Athlon XP and AMD Athlon XP-M using an intelligent fabric enable designers to configure IP processors feature the Quanti- ALTERA (WWW.ALTERA.COM) and generates a custom software- cores, including Actel’s Core8051. Speed architecture and support for The three Nios II general-pur- development kit. Actel tested and verified its preim- AMD’s 3DNow! Professional pose RISC-processor soft cores tar- plemented, synthesizable Direct- instructions for enhanced multime- get use in Altera’s Stratix, Stratix II, ANALOG DEVICES Core IP building blocks in Actel dia. The Athlon XP-M processors Cyclone, and HardCopy device (WWW.ANALOG.COM) FPGAs. are available in smaller PGA pack- families. The standard Nios II/s Analog Devices’ ADuC702x fam- ages to support “thin-and-light” core offers a balance between core ily of precision analog microcon- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES designs. size and performance, and the trollers integrates a 32-bit ARM7- (WWW.AMD.COM) The AMD Geode processor fam- Nios II/e and Nios II/f push the TDMI core with 12-bit ADCs. AMD offers an x86-based prod- ily targets broadband multimedia, balance toward a smaller core or Targeting industrial, optical-net- uct line addressing the needs of set-top boxes, and thin-client appli- faster performance, respectively. working, and automotive applica- embedded, mobile, and enter- cations. Developers can compare The Nios II/e core can consume as tions in which control and moni- prise-class servers and worksta- Geode processors by using a per- little as 35 cents’ worth of logic, toring are critical, the devices sup- tions and desktop PCs. This year, formance-power-rating nomencla- and the Nios II/f can achieve 200 port as many as 16 channels of AMD introduced models of the ture to select the processor with Dhrystone MIPS performance. All fast, 12-bit-accurate analog-to-digi- AMD Opteron, AMD Athlon 64, the appropriate mix of perform- three cores share a common 32- tal conversion and as many as four and Mobile AMD Athlon 64 ance and power consumption. This bit ISA and are 100% binary-code- 12-bit DACs. The ARM7TDMI fea- processors. The AMD64 processor year, AMD released a line of high- compatible. Designers use the tures a flash-based 16/32-bit RISC-

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processor core integrating analog core registers to further tailor the ATMEL (WWW.ATMEL.COM) V2.0B CAN controller that the peripherals, such as a precision system performance. Atmel provides standard prod- Atmel CANary microcontroller bandgap reference with a drift The seven-stage 32-bit scalar ucts, ASICs, and application-spe- family uses. The CAN controller performance of better than 10 RISC ARC 700-processor architec- cific options for the embedded- can handle 15 independent mes- ppm/ЊC. Other peripherals include ture targets high-data-rate applica- product market using seven sage objects, which you can pro- a comparator, a programmable- tions. The processor is available as microcontroller or microprocessor gram on the fly. With a 16-MIPS logic array for , and a synthesizable HDL that enables architectures. These architectures AVR RISC engine, 128-kbyte flash three-phase PWM generator. porting to almost any foundry or include the 4-bit Marc 4 that tar- program memory, 4-kbyte RAM, synthesis library. The ARC 700 uses gets low-power automotive appli- and 4-kbyte on-chip EEPROM, APPLIED MICRO CIRCUITS CORP the ARCompact ISA and is back- cations; the 8-bit AVR and 8051; AT90CAN128 is appropriate for (WWW.AMCC.COM) ward-compatible with the ARC- the 16-bit ARM Thumb; the 32-bit industrial-control applications. Over the last year, AMCC tangent -A5 and ARC 600 proces- ARM and MIPS; and the 32-bit acquired the 32-bit PowerPC 400 sors. Although the ARC 700 offers Sparc that is appropriate for radia- CIRRUS LOGIC family of processors. The Power- high clock rates, it makes few tion-tolerant aerospace designs. (WWW.CIRRUS.COM) PC 405 family targets low-cost, trade-offs in area for performance. Atmel offers a range of 32-bit Cirrus Logic’s new EP9301, low-power applications, such as The five-stage, 32-bit ARC 600 microcontrollers based on the EP9302, and EP9315 ARM9-based workgroup , - RISC architecture incorporates a ARM advanced RISC core. This embedded processors, along with access points, and Fibre Channel variety of low-power-consuming series offers a variety of memory the previously available EP9312, switches operating at 133 to 400 features, making it suitable for sizes and on-chip functions for target applications such as point- MHz. Devices in the PowerPC 440 portable consumer devices. high-performance applications. of-sale terminals, medical instru- family operate at 400 to 800 MHz Designers use the ARChitect 2 Atmel also offers a series of high- mentation, security and surveil- and include integrated TCP accel- processor configuration tool to reliability microcontrollers based lance, monitoring, and eration, Gigabit Ethernet, DDR change the configuration of the on the Motorola PowerPC archi- digital entertainment. These SRAM, and PCI-X interfaces. The core and to define custom proces- tecture for military and space processors include WinCE.NET general-purpose PowerPC 440GX sor extensions. The ARCtangent- applications. board-support packages and processor targets networking, stor- A5 incorporates the ARCompact Atmel’s AVR RISC microcon- kernel ports. age, and aerospace applications. 16/32-bit ISA; its use can result in trollers execute single-cycle in- The entry-level, ARM-based The PowerPC 440EP targets the a 40% reduction in code footprint structions. AVR-device features EP9301 features operating speeds imaging and industrial-control compared with 32-bit-only instruc- include on-chip, in-system-pro- as high as 166 MHz, external- markets. This part can be an tion-set architectures. As one of grammable flash and EEPROM; speed of 66 MHz, integration of a upgrade path for 405xx customers the smallest, fastest cores in the internal oscillators; timers; pullup 1/10/100-BaseT Ethernet MAC who need additional performance family, the ARCtangent-A4 is well- resistors; pulse-width modulation; (media-access controller), and or want to move to DDR memory. suited for a range of networking ADCs; and analog-comparator two USB 2.0 host ports. The 200- The PowerPC 440SP provides the applications. ARC offers legacy, and watchdog timers. The series MHz EP9302 networked SOC most PCI bandwidth of any synthesizable, 8-bit, general-pur- ranges from the tinyAVR (1 kbyte integrates an Ethernet interface PowerPC processor by offering pose, and 8086/80186 archi- of on-chip flash) to the megaAVR and a complement of peripherals. two 64-bit PCI-X interfaces and tectures. (128 kbytes of on-chip flash). The The EP9307 graphics and human one 32-bit PCI interface that make megaAVR supports a 100-nA interface targets networked appli- it suitable for the storage market. ARM (WWW.ARM.COM) power-down mode. cations that require a graphics ARM licenses IP for the devel- The 8051 line includes MCS-51 accelerator as well as display and ARC INTERNATIONAL opment of 32-bit, RISC-micro- socket drop-in devices with in-sys- audio capabilities to create a rich (WWW.ARC.COM) processor-based systems on tem-programming capability and human interface. The EP9312 SOC The ARC family of synthesiz- chips. ARM offers a range of small-footprint, 20-pin derivatives features a 200-MHz ARM9 proces- able, user-customizable 32-bit processor cores, including the in ROMless, ROM, one-time-pro- sor and 100-MHz system bus. It RISC-processor cores includes the ARM7, ARM9, ARM10, ARM11, grammable, and flash flavors. includes the MaverickCrunch ARCtangent-A4, ARCtangent-A5, and MPCore multiprocessor fami- Some of the devices implement math engine, MaverickKey tech- ARC 600, and ARC 700. Devel- lies, which the company based on the X2 mode, which doubles the nology, and such integrated opers begin with a basic ARC- a common architecture that internal-clock frequency for the peripherals as two EIDE devices, a processor core and can add and emphasizes performance with low CPU and peripherals. The 8051 1/10/100-Mbps Ethernet MAC, customize features to balance power consumption and system derivatives also include applica- three USB 2.0 hosts, and LCD and among computational perform- cost. ARM offers the SecurCore tion-specific products targeting touchscreen interfaces. ance, area, and power consump- technology targeting secure appli- CAN, MP3 applications, smart- The highly integrated EP9315 tion for their application. The cations, such as smart cards and card readers, USB applications, processor builds on the EP9312’s basic configuration represents the SIMs (subscriber identity mod- and Web-embedded TCP/IP. features for the next-generation smallest implementation. Each ules). ARM also offers the Over the last year, Atmel intro- consumer and industrial applica- processor can support optional OptimoDE Data Engine signal- duced the 8-bit AVR AT90CAN128 tions. The EP9315 features proces- DSP instructions and a high- processing technology and MBX flash microcontroller with extend- sor speeds as high as 200 MHz throughput XY-memory interface. 2-D- and 3-D-graphics-accelerator ed CAN capabilities. The AT90- and a bus speed of 100 MHz, and Designers can extend the proces- cores that it developed with CAN128 integrates the features of it integrates an Ethernet MAC, sor by adding instructions and Imagination Technologies. the mega128 and the V2.0A/ PCMCIA support, two-channel

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ADC; a temperature sensor; one PSOC (programmable-system-on- DALLAS SEMICONDUCTOR 24-bit-long interval timer; DMA; chip) arrays target embedded- (MAXIM INTEGRATED PRODUCTS, an MMU; and a proprietary-port control functions in consumer, WWW.MAXIM-IC.COM) configurator. Cyan’s development industrial, office-automation, tele- Dallas Semiconductor offers software includes CyanIDE, which com, and automotive applications. four families of 8051-instruction- contains a full ANSI unlimited-C PSOC devices integrate an 8-bit set-compatible microcontrollers. compiler, simulator, debugger, processor core with programma- The 8051 drop-in products com- and peripheral-configuration soft- ble blocks of analog and digital bine a selection of internal and ware. The peripheral-configuration logic, 16 kbytes of , I/O options with proprietary core software allows users to select 256 of SRAM, and a MAC designs to provide the highest those peripherals they need and (multiply-accumulate) unit. All performance 8051 derivatives IDE, and three USB 2.0 hosts. The to connect them to a choice of PSOC devices are dynamically available. Devices include one- EP9315 also supports an 18-bit pins. The peripheral-register setup reconfigurable, enabling designers clock/machine-cycle parts that can display, a touchscreen, and a key- code is automatically generated in to create system functions on the achieve operating speeds pad, and it adds a separate graph- assembly language. All Cyan fly that can achieve more than approaching 33 MIPS. The mem- ics accelerator to speed basic development software is down- 120% usage of the die. As an ory configurations for these graphics functions, such as block loadable and free. example, thipe automotive PSOC devices are ROMless, EPROM, copies. The EP9315 supports mul- LIN (local-interconnect-network)- and in-system-programmable tiple audio options and as many CYBERNETIC MICRO SYSTEMS bus reference design reuses the flash memory ranging from 16 to as six channels of 24-bit I2S audio, (WWW.CONTROLCHIPS.COM) same transistors four times to 64 kbytes. The Secure microcon- and it can encode and decode Cybernetic Micro Systems’ support the LIN communication trollers target applications audio algorithms, such as AAC, ASICs interface to a variety of modes, so that these transistors demanding protective measures MP3, and Windows Media Audio. peripherals that would be difficult consume less than 10% of PSOC against IP theft. These devices MaverickKey technology, which to control from a general-purpose hardware resources. employ advanced encryption is standard on all Cirrus ARM9- computer. These chips provide a The new-generation CY8C27x techniques supporting ATM based embedded processors high-level programmable interface device family improves the analog machines, point-of-sale terminals, except the EP9301, comprises the to the low-level functions of the support of earlier PSOC devices and data-logging applications. Keil MaverickKey digital-rights-man- peripheral. The 100-pin, 8-bit P-51 with instrumentation-quality ana- and IAR offer development-tool agement tool and the Maverick- microcontroller either sits be- log performance that includes rail- support for the DS80C400. Crunch advanced, mixed-mode, tween the host computer and the to-rail inputs; programmable gain; The network microcontrollers math . MaverickKey peripheral device or becomes the low noise, input leakage, and volt- provide low-cost connections for technology allows designers to peripheral device. With a dual- age offset; and peripheral blocks networking applications and in- assign hardware IDs for digital port RAM interface on the host for as many as four 14-bit ADCs. It clude a built-in Ethernet MAC rights-management implementa- side (PC104/ISA format), the P-51 includes 12 on-chip analog blocks, (media-access controller), com- tions. This technology can protect looks like memory to the host, but eight digital blocks, an 8ϫ8 multi- plete TCP/IP-address stacking in against design piracy as products it has the intelligence and capabil- plier with a 32-bit accumulator, 16 ROM, CAN, and parallel and serial enter manufacturing. The ity of an 8051, such as timers, kbytes of flash memory, and 256 ports. The devices use a micro- MaverickCrunch engine greatly counters, I/O ports, interrupts, bytes of SRAM. The CY8C24xxx controller core running at 75 MHz accelerates the single- and dou- and a special square-root func- family includes six analog and with an extended 22-bit address- ble-precision integer and floating- tion, for the peripheral application. four digital blocks, making it suit- ing range. The mixed-signal point-processing capabilities of The P-51 is chainable, so you able for motor- and motion-con- microcontrollers feature 12-bit the ARM920T processor core. can replicate it for multitask pro- trol applications. The CY8C22xxx analog-to-digital conversion and cessing on a single host. It can family has three analog and four dual 8-bit PWM channels that are CYAN TECHNOLOGY deal with real-time peripheral digital blocks, targeting sensor combinable to 16 bits, as well as (WWW.CYANTECHNOLOGY.COM) hardware and interrupts when applications, including fire- and multiple serial ports and extended Cyan Technology’s low-power, general operating systems for PC- intrusion-detection devices. parallel I/O. 16-bit, embedded-communica- 104 embedded-system applica- The PSOC family includes pre- tions, flash-based eCOG1k micro- tions cannot. It is in-circuit-pro- programmed, specialized versions FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR controller implements a 25-MHz grammable at reset, so you can for lighting, energy, motor-control, (WWW.FREESCALE.COM) RISC that easily download and upgrade communications, automotive, and Freescale Semiconductor, for- includes 64 kbytes of internal flash 8051 code. It includes built-in battery applications. Each family merly the Semiconductor Products memory, 4 kbytes of RAM, and 2 debugging features, such as member comes with a reference Sector of Motorola, offers micro- kbytes of to reduce power breakpoints and single-step de- design and extensive application processors and microcontrollers consumption when you use it in bugging, to allow in-circuit code notes to speed application devel- for the automotive, communica- conjunction with flash. The exter- development without an ICE. opment. The PSOC devices are tions and networking, consumer, nal-memory interface supports available in the space-saving MLF industrial, and pervasive-comput- addressability of 32 Mbytes of CYPRESS MICROSYSTEMS package that has excellent ther- ing markets. Freescale delivers a external memory. Additional fea- (WWW.CYPRESSMICRO.COM) mal and electrical performance range of 8-, 16-, and 32-bit micro- tures include IrDA; a smart-card Cypress MicroSystems’ field- ideal for handheld portable controllers and microprocessors interface; a four-channel, 12-bit programmable, mixed-signal devices. targeting consumer applications,

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vasive-computing designs. Its communications, computer- segment counts of as many as PowerPC processors deliver giga- peripheral, industrial, consumer, 192 discrete elements or 27 hertz performance at less than and security applications. numerical digits. The F2MC-8FX, 10W. The FR60 Lite Series, which is Fujitsu’s latest 8-bit family, deliv- the newest family, delivers 32-bit ers five times the performance of FUJITSU MICROELECTRONICS performance at 16-bit prices. The previous F2MC-8L products; it AMERICA MB91F233 and MB91232L include includes built-in dual-operation (WWW.FMA.FUJITSU.COM) embedded LCD controllers and flash plus many on-chip peripher- Fujitsu and Fujitsu Micro- target mobile devices and con- als. Built using 0.35-micron tech- electronics America design, manu- sumer products that require 32-bit nology, these processors target facture, and market 8-, 16-, and processing. Power consumption is digital-audio-video, medical, and including remote-keyless-entry 32-bit microcontroller products. as low as 1 mA/MHz. The consumer applications. devices, pedometers, MP3 players, The F2MC (Fujitsu flexible micro- MB91263 and MB91F264 mem- and white goods; industrial-con- controllers) line includes the 8-bit- bers of this series target consumer HYPERSTONE trol equipment, such as robotics, architecture F2MC-8L and F2MC- appliances that require motor or (WWW.HYPERSTONE.COM) diagnostic instrumentation, and 8FX series and the 16-bit-architec- inverter control, including washing Hyperstone’s 32-bit, single- factory-floor-automation tools; ture F2MC-16L/16LX/16F series. machines and air conditioners, as core, RISC-based processors can and automotive applications, The FR (Fujitsu RISC) integrates as well as printers and automobile- execute RISC and DSP instructions including antilock-braking systems, much as 768 kbytes of internal audio systems. Each 32-bit RISC with a high degree of parallelism. air bags, and power-train systems. flash; ROM; as much as 160 processor can take advantage of RISC and DSP instructions use an Freescale’s 32-bit, PowerPC kbytes of internal RAM; an exter- Fujitsu’s IP library and operates as ALU for normal RISC-instruction core-based PowerQuicc line pro- nal-bus interface; an ADC; a DAC; fast as 33 MHz without a wait execution and a separate DSP- vides data- and control-plane pro- and multiple CAN, LIN (local- state with internal flash memory. instruction-. The cessing for wireless-infrastructure, interconnect-network), USB, Fujitsu has four new 16-bit ALU- and DSP-instruction units enterprise-routing and -switching, UART, SIO, and I2C interfaces. The MB90800 microcontrollers target- share a set of registers, and the network-access and -aggregation, series also has a stepper motor ing LCD drivers for audio-visual execution is transparent to the SOHO and retail access, and per- and LCD controllers for auto, equipment that must display large user. All instructions, including

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those performing DSP functions, Hyperstone based its new, high- and embedded-processor cores. over comparable approaches. use RISC principles based on a ly integrated HyNet32XS network- The devices in the C500 micro- The TriCore unified microcom- load/store architecture. Instruc- ing processor on the E132XSR controller family are fully compati- puter/DSP architecture operates tions are variable in length for RISC/DSP processor core. It can ble in architecture and software as a single multitasking engine memory and speed efficiency. A operate at a maximum with the 8051 microcontroller with fast context switching. The static design operating as fast as of 220 MHz. The HyNet32XS uses family, differing in number and TriCore-based TC-1MP micro- 220 MHz, the E1-32XSR core per- four internal buses with a six-chan- complexity of their peripheral processor is available as a hard- forms as many as 880 million nel DMA controller. It integrates units, which Infineon has adapted core and fully synthesizable operations per second. The cur- dual 10/100-Mbps Ethernet MACs to specific applications. macro in the Design- rent consumption is 40 mA at 220 (media-access controllers) with The of microcon- Ware Star IP program. Applica- MHz and drops to as low as 100 MIIs (media-independent inter- trollers offers clock speeds as high tions for the core include servo ␮A in the low-power modes. A faces), an integrated 10/100-Mbps as 40 MHz; peripheral support; control; audio-domain DSP, such full set of hardware- and software- Ethernet PHY, USB 1.1 with trans- and programmability for industri- as speech processing; data com- development tools, including a ceiver, ATM Utopia Level 2 sup- al-control, automotive-electronics, munications; modems; automo- real-time kernel, is available. porting connection of as many as PC-peripheral-control, and con- tive systems; and portable appli- Hyperstone offers specialized three external PHYs, a PCM inter- sumer-electronics devices. cations, such as wireless phones Compact Flash, SD flash, and face connecting to an external IOM In addition to C166-family and Internet appliances. MMC flash controllers based on (input/output-module)-2 interface, CPUs, the C166S synthesizable Infineon based the Linux-capa- the E1-32XS core. The processors a CAN-bus interface that is com- core is available as a core in the ble, 32-bit TC1130 microcontroller have a flash interface to Samsung patible with CAN 2.0 and Philips DesignWare Star IP program of on the TriCore unified-processor NAND flash or equivalent or to SJA 1000, and a YuV interface for Synopsys. The XC164CM provides architecture and runs the Linux Hitachi AND flash or equivalent. CCIR656-compliant video input. double the performance at the for industrial These controllers interface to same clock speed as earlier gen- and communications applications. hosts using Compact Flash (F2- INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES erations of the C166. The The TC1130 targets use in PLC 16X), SD flash (S2-16X), or Multi WWW.INFINEON.COM XC164CM is also in a small-form- systems; high-performance Media flash (M2-16X). The units Infineon’s processors are avail- factor package to reduce required motor-drive systems; industrial- can handle 16 flash devices. able as both stand-alone devices board space as much as 20% communications devices, such as

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midsized enterprise routers, memory location across a range lies. These cores include a range switches, and security devices; of operating temperatures; EE- of features, code compression, wireless-access points; industrial- PROM; one-time-programmable low power consumption, and control systems; and networked memory; and ROM. high performance. The 5K family printers. The IXP4XX product line Microchip Technology’s PIC 8- of synthesizable processor cores comprises the IXP425, IXP422, bit-microcontroller introductions enables SOC designers to get to IXP421, and IXP420 network pro- include an expansion of its CAN- the highest frequency and per- cessors. Intel bases the IXC1100 product portfolio with the formance for their application and control-plane processor on the PIC18F860 family that features the have the flexibility of choosing same hardware and software new ECAN (enhanced-CAN) any foundry processes and config- architecture as the IXP4XX proces- module. The CAN 2.0B ECAN uration to suit the needs of their switches, hubs, and routers; and sors. It targets control-plane func- interface offers hardware support applications. consumer applications, such as tions within wired- and wireless- for the DeviceNet protocols and The Pro Series cores enable set-top boxes. telecom equipment and other configurable transmitting and expert SOC designers to write networked embedded devices. receiving buffers, which you can their own CorExtend instruction INTEGRATED DEVICE The Intel Architecture family of use for standard-CAN operation extensions and add functions to a TECHNOLOGY (WWW.IDT.COM) processors targets traditional or as FIFO registers. The company core to create differentiated prod- The IDT Interprise family of embedded-system applications, also announced the PIC16F684/ ucts. Using standard tools and integrated communications such as point-of-sale, kiosk, ATM, 688/12F683 devices in eight- and software, designers can imple- processors delivers data process- NAS (network-attached-storage), 14-pin packages targeting applica- ment CorExtend instructions to ing at line-rate speed with pro- high-end-SAN (storage-area-net- tions such as appliances, battery- increase performance, reduce cessing headroom for value- work), industrial-control, factory- operated/handheld products, sen- power consumption, and imple- added features. IDT based the automation, medical-imaging, and sors, interfaces, automotive con- ment critical operations. processor cores on the 32-bit communications applications that trol, and general-purpose control. Over the last year, MIPS MIPS ISA. Interprise processors support the wireless and wire-line The PIC18F4431 family comes Technologies introduced the and their associated system-devel- infrastructure. Architecture proces- with peripherals for electronic- MIPS32 24K family of cores that opment tools facilitate designs for sors include the Celeron, ultra- motor control in automotive, support tailored SOC-design SOHO routers, Ethernet switches, low-voltage Celeron, Pentium 4, industrial, appliance, and con- methodologies, an OCP (Open WAPs, VPN equipment, and more. Pentium M, Xeon, and low-voltage sumer applications. Core Protocol) interconnect struc- IDT’s RC32434 Interprise inte- Xeon processors. This year, Intel The dsPIC family of DSCs (digi- ture, standard libraries, and on- grated communications processor, introduced higher performing tal-signal controllers) features a chip memories. The 24K family operating as fast as 400 MHz, tar- processors in the Intel Pentium M, fully implemented DSP engine supports the CorExtend capability gets the emerging digital home Pentium 4, low-voltage Xeon, and with 30-MIPS, nonpipelined per- and includes features such as network, which includes multime- Xeon processor families. This formance, a C-compiler-friendly ultrafast multiplication, intelligent dia applications, such as media range of processors features per- design, and a familiar microcon- caches, and floating-point sup- servers, media adapters, and IP- formance with speeds reaching 3 troller architecture and design port, making it suitable for inter- based network appliances. The GHz, reduced power consump- environment. The 20 dsPIC30- active television, set-top boxes, integrated nonvolatile RAM and tion, hyperthreading, dual pro- FXXXX 16-bit flash DSCs target DVD, and other performance- an authentication unit for security cessing, and high I/O bandwidth. motor-control, power-conversion, driven applications. MIPS Tech- functions enable digital-content- sensor, and general-purpose nologies also introduced the MIPS protection applications and identi- MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY applications. The MPlab C30 C consumer-audio platform, a com- fication storage. (WWW.MICROCHIP.COM) compiler supports the dsPIC DSC mon foundation that enables The RC32365 Interprise proces- Microchip Technology’s PIC infrastructure. Third-party support designers to implement audio sor integrates a hardware-acceler- RISC microcontrollers balance and 19 hardware- and software- codecs for devices targeting ated IPsec engine that improves performance, cost, and compact support tools and libraries are high-growth embedded-system the operating frequency by 20% packages. The PIC microcontroller available for the dsPIC30F archi- markets. over the initially announced architecture provides users with a tecture. speed. The RC32365 processor migration path from eight to 84 NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR now achieves an overall frequen- pins among all families with little MIPS TECHNOLOGIES (WWW.NATIONAL.COM) cy as high as 180 MHz with 70- or no code changes. Advanced (WWW.MIPS.COM) National Semiconductor’s Mbyte/sec of IPsec throughput. features include sophisticated tim- MIPS Technologies provides CP3000 connectivity-processor IDT has introduced enhanced ver- ing peripherals; ADCs; inter- synthesizable cores for digital con- family combines a RISC core with sions of the RC32332 and processor-communications sumer, networking, and security on-chip SRAM and flash memory, RC32333 processors that offer peripherals, including I2C, SPI, applications. The company licens- hardware-communications periph- power reduction. USB, and CAN ports and USARTs; es its intellectual property to semi- erals, and an expandable external in-circuit serial programming; and conductor companies, ASIC devel- bus to target embedded-system- INTEL (WWW.INTEL.COM) memory technology, including opers, and system OEMs. MIPS communications applications, The Intel IXP4XX product line PEEC (PMOS Electrically Erasable Technologies’ 32-bit, synthesizable such as vehicle-network gateways, targets applications such as high- ) flash, which can perform 1 offering includes cores from the hands-free car kits, and industri- end residential gateways; small to million erase/write cycles on each 4K, M4K, 4KE, 4KS, and 24K fami- al/medical instrumentation and

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formance, low-voltage operation, controllers, targeting 16- and 32- purpose embedded-system appli- DSP functions, and on-chip bit applications, as prototype cations requiring high perform- peripherals targeting consumer- boards or as full ASICs. The proto- ance and low power consumption electronics and other embedded- typing board includes an ARM7 or in a cost-effective package. The system applications. The 64-bit VR an ARM9 processor, memory con- high-performance, 80C51-based Series MIPS-based microproces- trollers, interrupt controllers, and LPC900 family has an ADC and sors provide high-performance other basic functions for System executes instructions in two to scalability targeting embedded LSI design on a single platform. four clocks. The devices incorpo- systems from Internet and digital- Designers can integrate their own, rate communication ports and consumer-electronics devices to third-party, or Oki Semiconductor system supervisory functions in servers and switches. The compa- intellectual property to use with low-profile TSSOP and HVQFN control. versions in- ny offers development systems, the ARM7TDMI, ARM920T, and 14-pin packages to reduce com- clude an NRE- and royalty-free including hardware platforms and ARM946E-88 cores. Key features ponent count, board space, and Bluetooth stack and source code software packages. of the Advantage Microcontroller system cost. The LPC900 family for Bluetooth profiles. National Over the past year, NEC family include built-in flash ROM, targets applications that demand Semiconductor’s single-chip Electronics America announced the a PLL clock multiplier, as much as low voltage, high integration, high CP3000 processors have 32-bit V850E/CG2 5-CAN gateway 32 kbytes of high-speed SRAM, performance, and low cost. Bluetooth-lower-link-controller, microcontroller with FPU and the watchdog timers, PWM, UARTs, USB, CAN, Access.bus, 32-bit /RS1 microcontroller additional serial ports, ADC chan- PMC-SIERRA Microwire/Plus, SPI, UART, and for high-end automotive-safety nels, selectable clock gears, and (WWW.PMC-SIERRA.COM) Advanced Audio interfaces. applications. The company standby modes to support low- PMC-Sierra offers 64-bit MIPS- The COP8flash microcontrollers expanded its motor- and inverter- power applications. based microprocessors targeting feature an 8-bit core and as much control portfolio by introducing the The Advantage Microcontroller enterprise, access, metropolitan, as 32 bytes of onboard flash that 32-bit V850E/IA3 and V850E/IA4 family comprises products ranging optical-transport, storage-area-net- you can use as data or program microcontrollers, and it introduced from the ML671000 with a built-in working, and wireless-network storage and work for more than the 8-bit uPD78F0714 and 32-bit USB controller to the high-per- equipment. The RM5200 and 100,000 delete/write cycles. The V850ES/IK1 for electronic house- formance, 60-MHz, cache-based RM7000 families of stand-alone devices offer virtual-EEPROM hold applications. The V850ES/IK1 675K Series. The 675K and 674K microprocessors offer pin-compat- functions, in-system program- is the company’s first inverter- Series ARM-core-based Advantage ible performance speeds of 250 to ming, and integrated analog and application product to adopt the Microcontrollers offer choices in 900 MHz. The highly integrated mixed-signal functions for stand- V850ES CPU core. operating frequencies, caches, RM9000 family offers dual and alone and Internet-controlled features, and packages. Both the single 1-GHz cores with a set of applications. National NETSILICON 675K and 674K Series feature an high-throughput peripherals, such Semiconductor’s Webench online- (WWW.NETSILICON.COM) ARM7TDMI core, 4 kbytes of as HyperTransport, Gigabit Ether- design environment supports NetSilicon extended its proces- built-in boot ROM, and an option- net, PCI, DDRI/DDRII SDRAM, development for COP8flash sor family by building onto the al total of 256 or 512 kbytes of and DUARTs. The open MIPS devices; it allows designers to pre- ARM7 and ARM9 cores. It based built-in flash memory. The 675K architecture supports more than configure microcontrollers and the NS9750 and NS9775 on the Series has an operating frequency 50 third-party partners for soft- receive source code for their ARM 926EJ-S core. The NS9750 of 60 MHz and 8 kbytes of unified ware- and development-tool sup- applications. integrates Ethernet, USB, PCI, cache, and the 674K Series oper- port. LCD, 1284, and serial I/O. The ates at 33 MHz. The 675K and PMC-Sierra this year added NEC ELECTRONICS NS9775 is a high-performance 674K Series are pin-compatible to three devices to its RM9000 fami- (WWW.NECELAM.COM) color-laser-printer processor and facilitate performance upgrades. ly. The RM9000x2GL and RM- NEC Electronics America man- integrates Ethernet, USB, and PCI 9000x1GL provide additional ufactures and markets a variety of to improve the cost performance PHILIPS SEMICONDUCTORS options of Gigabit Ethernet, PCI, highly integrated, low-power of color laser printers. NetSilicon’s (WWW.SEMICONDUCTORS. and other peripheral integration embedded microprocessors and NetϩWorks 6.1 is an integrated PHILIPS.COM) on the RM9000 dual 1-GHz core microcontrollers targeting applica- suite of development and net- Philips Semiconductors offers platform. The RM9150 uses an tions from consumer electronics working software. NetSilicon sup- 8-, 16-, and 32-bit devices to satis- SOC platform that leverages the to high-end computing, commu- ports development for the 32-bit fy the needs of low- to high-end E9000 core and the FDB (Fast nications, automotive, wireless, NETϩARM microprocessor with applications. Philips based the 16/ Device Bus) advanced system-bus and networking. The 8-bit K0 and NetSilicon’s NETϩWorks advance 32-bit LPC2000 family on a 1.8V architecture. The on-chip FDB K0S families are available with networking software, develop- ARM7TDMI-S core operating as interconnect provides glueless flash memory and integrate ment tools, real-time operating fast as 60 MHz together with a connectivity between the E9000 peripherals such as LCD drivers system, and connectivity software. range of peripherals, including core and high-throughput periph- and controllers. The microcon- multiple serial interfaces, a 10-bit erals, such as HyperTransport, trollers target consumer appli- OKI SEMICONDUCTOR ADC, and external-bus options. Gigabit Ethernet, PCI, and DDRI/ ances and industrial-controlled (WWW.OKISEMI.COM/US) These controllers target industrial- DDRII SDRAM. applications. The 32-bit V850 fam- Oki Semiconductor offers its control, automotive, medical, con- PMC-Sierra also broadened its ily delivers 32-bit-processing per- ARM-based Advantage Micro- nectivity, and any other general- stand-alone processor family with

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QuickLogic offers key modules, 150 microcontroller types with SOC microprocessor that operates such as video compression/ operating frequencies of 1 to 80 at 400 MHz that is nearly 70% decompression, encryption, and MHz and on-chip flash memories faster than previous SH-4 series digital-rights management. To of 8 kbytes to 1 Mbyte. For home devices. The SH7770 SOC device support the automotive program, appliances, such as white goods, combines a fast processor core, a QuickLogic has partnered with Renesas offers low-power, cost- GPS , 2- and Oasis SiliconSystems for the sensitive, 4- to 16-bit microcon- 3-D-graphics engines, and more MOST (Media Oriented Systems trollers in the /Tiny, H8/Tiny, than 50 peripheral functions. Transport) fiber-based network R8/SLP, 740, and 4500 series. The standard and has developed a SuperH and M16C/ families, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS series of reference designs for including the SH-2, SH2-DSP, (WWW.SAMSUNGSEMI.COM) three high-performance micro- rear-seat infotainment and tele- M16C, M32R, and SH-2A series, Samsung’s S3C2410 and processors. The 64-bit, MIPS- matics platforms with software for target automotive and industrial S3C2440 minimize system cost based RM7900, RM7965, and both Linux and Windows CE applications. For PC/server appli- and eliminate the need to config- RM7935 microprocessors use the environments. cations, the 16- and 32-bit micro- ure additional components by E9000 core and operate at speeds controllers in the , providing a complete set of com- as high as 900 MHz. These RABBIT SEMICONDUCTOR including the H8, H8S, and H8SX mon system peripherals for devices are available in multiple (WWW.RABBITSEMICONDUCTOR. series, provide optimum functions mobile applications, such as wire- package options, including one COM) and performance. The M16C and less handheld devices, smart that allows seamless, pin-compati- Rabbit Semiconductor offers M32 families target consumer phones, and GPS-enabled porta- ble upgrades between the low-EMI microprocessors for applications. Renesas’ AE series bles. These processors feature a RM5200 and the RM7000 fami- embedded control, communica- chips support smart-card plat- 16/32-bit ARM920T RISC core lies. This method allows designers tions, and Ethernet connectivity. forms with 68 kbytes of EEPROM operating at 203 or 266 MHz for to add performance and features The Rabbit 3000/2000 processor and a 1024-bit encryption co- the S3C2410 or 300, 400, and 533 in the same footprint. families feature a glueless archi- processor for security applications. MHz for the S3C2440. Samsung tecture and Dynamic C develop- The 32-bit SuperH processors, developed the processors using QUICKLOGIC ment software. Rabbit offers low- including the SH-3, SH3-DSP, SH- CMOS-standard cells and a mem- (WWW.QUICKLOGIC.COM) cost development kits and techni- 4, and SH-4A series, are appropri- ory compiler, and both adopt the The QuickMIPS family com- cal support for both hardware and ate for mobile and in-car-naviga- AMBA (Advanced Microcontroller bines a complete embedded- software issues. tion systems. Bus Architecture). Both processors processor subsystem and pro- The high-performance, 8-bit Over the last year, Renesas include a built-in NAND flash grammable logic on a single die. Rabbit 3000 processor targets use Technology rolled out a 16-bit boot loader so that you can use This device architecture provides in embedded controls and pro- microcontroller for cost-sensitive high-density NAND flash memory some opportunities for system vides communications connectivi- motor-control and security sys- without designing in an additional designers to make trade-offs in ty. It features LQFP or TFBGA tems, a high-performance micro- controller chip; they also support implementing system functions in packages; clock speeds as high as controller for automotive and WinCE, Palm, Symbian, and Linux hardware for improved perform- 55.5 MHz; ultralow-EMI commu- communication systems, and a operating systems. ance or in software for increased nication capabilities; support for 32-bit SuperH microprocessor for system flexibility. QuickLogic’s TCP/IP, IrDA, SDLC/HDLC, asyn- advanced in-vehicle-navigation SHARP MICROELECTRONICS Vialink technology, along with the chronous, SPI, and I2C protocols; systems. The R8C/Tiny series of (WWW.SHARPSMA.COM) fact that communication between more than 56 digital I/Os; serial low-cost, low-pin-count, 16-bit Sharp Microelectronics of the the programmable logic and the ports; 1.8 to 3.6V power; and 5V- microcontrollers have as much as Americas offers engineers a family processor subsystem occurs all on tolerant I/O. The low-cost, 8-bit 16 kbytes of on-chip flash memo- of microcontrollers and SOC chip, helps protect user-devel- microprocessor tar- ry, 1 kbyte of RAM, and an on- products based on the popular oped intellectual property in the gets use in embedded control. Its chip internal-ring-oscillation cir- ARM7 and ARM9 cores. Sharp’s programmable logic from tamper- features include an onboard slave cuit. For automotive and commu- ARM-based 16- and 32-bit ing. port, a software-controlled clock nication systems, Renesas added BlueStreak RISC-microcontroller Over the last year, QuickLogic speed, three levels of interrupt 10 new devices to the high-per- line represents an integrated fami- has announced three QuickMIPS priority, 40 parallel-I/O lines, a formance M32C/80 series in the ly of devices. Sharp’s 16-bit line products. Since then, QuickLogic battery-backed time/date clock, M16C family. These microcon- offers functions balanced with has shifted from addressing all and a watchdog timer. trollers operate as fast as 32 MHz lower power usage, and the 32-bit embedded markets to focusing and offer 512 kbytes plus 4 kbytes line balances performance and on a couple of markets. Quick- RENESAS TECHNOLOGY of single-voltage-programmable functions without compromising Logic has developed intellectual (WWW.RENESAS.COM) flash memory and peripheral the power budget. Sharp’s prod- property and software to target Renesas Technology, a joint functions, such as Bosch Version uct lines for the 16-bit microcon- applications that distribute digital venture of Hitachi and Mitsubishi 2.0B-compliant CAN controllers trollers include the LH75400, media over IP (Internet Protocol) Electric, offers 8- to 32-bit micro- and HDLC (high-level data-link LH75401, LH75410, LH75411, and networks, including in-car infotain- controllers and microprocessors control). For in-vehicle-navigation LH79525. The 32-bit-microcon- ment, digital signage, overhead for diverse embedded applica- and -infotainment systems, troller family comprises the projectors, and medical imaging. tions. Renesas offers more than Renesas introduced the SH7770 LH79520, LH79524, LH7A400,

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that eliminates the need for an trollers target the high-reliability, lor Stretch’s processors to address emulator. A low-cost professional high-flexibility, low-voltage, and computationally intensive applica- development kit includes an inte- low-power requirements of tions in markets such as con- grated development environment, today’s computer peripherals, sumer, telecom, networking, med- a target board, cables, and a communication equipment, digital ical, and military. power supply. Silicon Laboratories’ consumer/appliances, and net- The Stretch S5 engine, which single-chip USB products integrate working applications. powers every S5000 processor, a full-speed USB 2.0 function con- incorporates the Tensilica Xtensa troller and on-chip clock recovery. STMICROELECTRONICS RISC-processor core and the Silicon Laboratories’ single-chip (WWW.STM.COM) Stretch ISEF (instruction-set-exten- CAN-bus products integrate a STMicroelectronics offers 8-, sion fabric). The ISEF offers wide and LH7A404, which have high CAN 2.0B controller and high-per- 16-, and 32-bit microcontrollers load/store support for any align- computing power and practical formance ADCs. and microprocessors, including a ment, three 128-bit-wide register peripherals. Sharp offers low-cost The C8051F350 and the C8051- new family of ARM7-based micro- files, as many as three wide design and evaluation tools, mul- F064 devices are the newest addi- controllers. It offers several appli- operands, a computation fabric tiple operating systems, and a tion to this line of processors. The cation-specific devices for motor- supporting hundreds to thou- library of peripheral drivers and C8051F350 integrates an eight- control, USB, and CAN applica- sands of operations per instruc- application-specific software. channel, 24-bit ADC with a 50- tions. The 8-bit portfolio includes tion, and one- or two-wide data Over the last year, Sharp MIPS 8051-compatible CPU into a the “bulletproof” ST6 family, the results. With Stretch’s proprietary Microelectronics announced the 5ϫ5-mm package. The C8051- 8051-based microPSD family, and technology, developers use 32-bit BlueStreak microcontrollers F350 targets precision-measure- the ST7 family. New devices C/Cϩϩ to program the proces- featuring ARM9 cores. The ment applications, such as scales, include the ST7MC for controlling sor and to “configure” the ISEF LH7A400 uses an ARM922T with process control, and smart sen- three-phase brushless motors, a with custom instructions. a 16-kbyte cache, an MMU, a sors. The C8051F064 product 3V version of the ST72324 gener- color-LCD controller, and local family integrates a 25-MIPS 8051 al-purpose microcontroller, and a SUPERH (WWW.SUPERH.COM) SRAM to target emerging Internet- microcontroller with dual 16-bit, turbo version of the microPSD. SuperH products include the and multimedia-centric applica- 1M-sample/sec ADCs. The The ST9 family represents high 32-bit SH-4 and the 64-bit SH-5 tions. The 32-bit LH7A404 C8051F064 targets applications performance at low costs for 8- RISC families that are available as extends the LH7400 features with that require high-speed data and16-bit-device applications. synthesizable and hard cores. an ADC and a touchscreen, mak- acquisition, high accuracy, low The company offers 16-bit SuperH CPU cores target con- ing it appropriate for handheld- noise, and low power consump- devices with the ST10 family, sumer, auto, telecom, and hand- device, industrial, and media-play- tion, including imaging systems, which includes devices operating held-multimedia-appliance mar- er applications. The low-cost industrial controls, medical and as fast as 50 MHz, a four-stage kets with emphasis on set-top LH79525 microcontroller uses the scientific instrumentation, and pipeline, and as much as 256 boxes, residential gateways, car ARM720T core integrated with a wireless base stations. kbytes of internal flash. The 32-bit information systems, modems, 16-bit external data bus and a STR-ARM family, based on the digital cameras, and multimedia variety of functions. Development SILICON STORAGE TECHNOLOGY ARM7 core, supports the Thumb players. SuperH’s processors are tools for these devices include the (WWW.SST.COM) 16-bit ISA and offers as much as available with an optional VFPU BlueStreak software library, which SST designs and manufactures 256 kbytes of flash memory, JTAG (vector floating-point unit) and offers designers a centralized various densities of highly func- support, and extensive peripher- MMU and come with the timer- Internet location to access and tioning flash-memory compo- als, including USB, CAN, buffered unit, real-time-clock, clock-pulse download critical software drivers nents, flash mass-storage prod- SPI, ATAPI, UART, and HDLC. The generator, and serial-communica- and documentation. ucts, and flash microcontrollers SH4-based ST40 is available as a tion-interfaces core-support targeting the digital-consumer, standard product for high-per- peripherals and emulation-sup- SILICON LABORATORIES networking, wireless-communica- formance applications. For x86 port peripherals for debugging (WWW.SILABS.COM) tions, and Internet-computing designs, the STPC is available in support. IP for memory con- Over the last year, Silicon markets. SST’s flashFlex51 family several configurations to provide trollers and a dynamic memory- Laboratories acquired Cygnal of Superflash CMOS 8-bit micro- PC-on-chip systems to take advan- access controller are available. Integrated Products and its family controller products implements tage of extensive x86 software. The 32-bit SH-4 is available as of analog-intensive, highly inte- the 8051 architecture and ISA, the integer SH4-MCU, the SH4- grated, 8-bit processors. Silicon which is hardware-compatible STRETCH MPU with an integrated MMU, Laboratories’ C8051Fxxx family of with 89C5x microcontroller (WWW.STRETCHINC.COM) and the SH4-FPU with an integrat- mixed-signal microcontrollers inte- devices. These microcontrollers Stretch’s S5000 family of soft- ed MMU and VFPU. The SH4- grates world-class analog; a high- include in-application-program- ware-configurable processors em- MCU and SH4-MPU are recent speed, pipelined 8051 processor ming, an SPI, a programmable beds programmable logic within additions to the SH-4 family, tar- core; in-system-programmable array, brownout detec- the processor engine. These chips geting low-performance applica- flash memory; and on-chip JTAG- tion, a watchdog timer, a second combine the software model of tions. The SH4-MCU and SH4- based debugging in each device. DPTR (SST’s data pointer), and general-purpose processors and MPU, software-compatible mem- All of Silicon Laboratories’ proces- hard- and soft-lock security fea- the parallelism and flexibility of bers, extend the SH-4 family into sors feature in-system debugging tures. The flashFlex51 microcon- programmable logic. You can tai- low-power, low-performance, and

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The Xtensa LX takes the basic mode, and 250 mA/MIPS while ware and software platforms that Xtensa V architecture and adds active. The family offers on-chip provide a ready-to-use bill of I/O and computational perform- high-performance analog periph- materials. Platforms are available ance. The Xtensa LX processor erals, such as comparator-gated for home-entertainment, IP set- implements Tensilica’s FLIX (flexi- timers and ADCs, targeting precise top-box, industrial-control, mobile ble-length-instruction-extension) measurement applications. The and wireless, and other digital architecture. FLIX is a configura- in-system-programmable flash consumer applications. Toshiba tion option that allows designer- memory permits flexible code delivers ready-to-use reference defined instructions to consist of changes, field upgrades, and data boards. multiple independent operations logging. Prices for a complete Toshiba introduced its third TX bundled into a 32- or 64-bit in- integrated development environ- System RISC platform for residen- smaller-die-device markets. The struction word. The LX seamlessly ment start at $49, and prices for tial-gateway applications. The integer SH4-MCU targets small- intermixes wide 32- or 64-bit FLIX devices start at just 49 cents. Key company developed the WVM- die and low-power requirements; formats with the base Xtensa in- applications include utility meter- 49RX reference design in collabo- the SH4-401S CPU core delivers struction-set architecture’s 16/24- ing, portable instrumentation, and ration with Sigma Designs. It com- as many as 400 Dhrystone MIPS bit instructions. No mode-switch intelligent sensors. bines the Toshiba TMPR4925 or at 266 MHz, and the SH4-450S penalty occurs for using a FLIX Recent additions include three TMPR4926 MIPS-based RISC integer CPU core measures less instruction. The FLIX architecture application-specific standard prod- processor with the Sigma Designs than 0.8 mm2 and consumes only allows the implementation of ucts. The MSP430FE42x targets EM8485 MPEG-1/-2/-4 decoder 0.06 mW/MHz in 0.13 micron. highly parallel processors with a electronic electricity-metering chip and supports MPEG-1, The SH4-MPU adds an MMU that performance characteristic of spe- applications, and the MSP430- MPEG-2, and MPEG-4 decoding supports operating systems such cialty ultrawide-instruction-word FW427 targets electronic-flow- for high-quality audio/video as Linux, Windows CE.NET, and processors without the negative measurement and rotational- streaming. WVM49RX targets Unix. The SH4-501S is available at code-size implications that typical- motion-detection applications. client platforms for a low-cost frequencies as high as 266 MHz ly occur in VLIW or ULIW The MSP430FG43x targets media gateway, an IP set-top box, in 0.13 micron. Both the SH4- approaches. portable medical devices, such as or a video endpoint. MCU and the SH4-MPU are avail- Other highlights of the Xtensa blood-pressure monitors, glucose able as synthesizable cores. LX architecture include automated meters, and pH meters. Texas TRANSMETA The SH-5 64-bit RISC CPU core insertion of fine-grained clock gat- Instruments also introduced the (WWW.TRANSMETA.COM) adds SIMD capabilities and is ing for every functional element, MSP430F161x family, which offers Transmeta‘s x86-compatible, available as the SH5-MPU or SH5- including designer-defined func- five times more RAM and retains software-based microprocessors FPU families. The SH5-103 variant tions, of the Xtensa LX processor. the signal-chain-on-chip character target diverse computing plat- of the SH-5 family of 64-bit RISC The minimum configuration dissi- of the MSP430 devices. forms that demand energy effi- CPU cores is available as a hard pates 0.05 mW/MHz in a repre- ciency, low heat, and x86-software core in a TSMC 0.13-micron pro- sentative 130-nm process technol- TOSHIBA AMERICA ELECTRONIC compatibility, such as ultra-PCs, cess and as a synthesizable core. ogy. To improve I/O throughput, COMPONENTS ultraportable-notebook comput- The SH5-103 is available in the designers can choose one or two (CHIPS.TOSHIBA.COM) ers, thin-and-light-notebook com- SH5-EVA CPU with PCI and mem- 128-bit-wide load/store units, and Toshiba offers 8-, 16-, and 32- puters, tablet PCs, thin clients, and ory interfaces; TMU, RTC, and you can add direct ports and bit CISC microcontrollers and a blade servers. Transmeta also DMAC interfaces; and a Super- queues to allow the Xtensa LX family of 32- and 64-bit MIPS- develops advanced power-man- Hyway-Off-Chip port for design processor to communicate as fast based RISC microprocessors. agement technologies for control- and prototyping. and flexibly as RTL blocks. De- Toshiba this year rounded out its ling leakage and increasing power signers can select two additional microcontroller-product offering efficiency in semiconductor and TENSILICA clock cycles for memory access if with embedded-flash microcon- computing devices. (WWW.TENSILICA.COM) the application requires them. trollers for the white-goods mar- The Efficeon processor targets Tensilica licenses the Xtensa V ket. The 32-bit, MIPS-based power-efficient x86 applications and Xtensa LX processor cores. TEXAS INSTRUMENTS TX19A70 RISC microcontroller by featuring a 256-bit-wide VLIW The Xtensa V is Tensilica’s config- (WWW.TI.COM) provides simultaneous vector engine that can execute as many urable and extensible 32-bit RISC Texas Instruments’ MSP430 motor control of inverter motors as eight instructions per clock processor. The Xtensa 32-bit archi- family of ultra-low-power, 16-bit, and application control for air cycle; a 1-Mbyte L2 cache; and tecture features a compact in- RISC mixed-signal processors conditioners, washing machines, support for MMX, SSE (streaming struction set optimized for em- enables designers to simultane- and refrigerators. Based on SIMD extensions), and SSE2 in- bedded-system designs. The basic ously interface to analog signals, SuperFlash Technology licensed structions. The Transmeta Crusoe architecture has a 32-bit ALU; as sensor components and digital from Silicon Storage Technology, TM5700 and TM5900 micropro- many as 64 general-purpose components and to support low the TMP86FS49 8-bit microcon- cessors integrate a north bridge in physical registers; six special-pur- power for battery-powered meas- troller targets large household a 21ϫ21-mm package to enable pose registers; and 80 basic urement applications. The archi- appliances, such as refrigerators, smaller form factors for x86-com- instructions, including compact tecture features power consump- washing machines, and dryers. patible, energy-efficient mobile 16- and 24-bit rather than 32-bit tion at 0.1 mA for RAM retention, The Toshiba TX System RISC and embedded computing. The RISC-instruction encoding. 0.8 mA during real-time-clock reference designs comprise hard- north bridge matches with these

54 edn | August 5, 2004 www.edn.com m i crop rocessor ments I/O in software and fea- VIA TECHNOLOGIES processor targets consumer, tures single-cycle instruction exe- (WWW.VIA.COM.TW OR mobile, and embedded-system cution, deterministic operation, WWW.VIATECH.COM) applications in which low power on-chip flash and RAM, and flexi- Via offers a variety of low- consumption and fanless opera- ble general-purpose I/O. power x86 processors targeting tion are important. The Eden-N The IP3023 processor targets digital-set-top boxes, media cen- and Eden ESP processors can SOHO wireless applications and ters, thin clients, notebook/tablet operate at 300 MHz to 1 GHz with can operate as eight separate PCs, and point-of-sale and indus- a maximum power consumption processors running at speeds as trial-automation applications. of 7W. The Antaur processor fea- high as 250 MHz in 3.9-MHz incre- These devices use the C5P tures advanced power-saving tech- ments by providing eight-way mul- Nehemiah core, a streamlined nology that helps to extend battery tithreading and zero-cycle context version of the previous C5XL life for mobile devices. Targeting cores to support DDR DRAM, switching between the threads. For Nehemiah core, which enables x86-based consumer-electronics HyperTransport interconnect, and wireless-networking applications, these devices to operate at higher devices, the 18W (maximum an AGP graphics interface. the IP3023 can deliver, without the speeds within the same thermal power) Via C3 processor enables use of data compression, line- bracket. These processors are low-profile and quiet digital-media UBICOM (WWW.UBICOM.COM) speed NAT (network-address-trans- available in the nanoBGA, EBGA, centers that operate with standard Ubicom offers wireless-network lation) routing on 10/100-Mbps and Socket 370 CPGA packages Microsoft Windows or Linux oper- processors that implement most links and greater than 50 Mbps of and include lead-free options in ating systems. Newer processors in communication and control func- real data throughput with accordance with ROHS (restriction all three of the Via processor fami- tions in software, so that one 802.11a/g chip sets using of hazardous substances) and lies incorporate a second on-die processor can support many turbo mode. The platform delivers WEEE (waste from electric and random-number generator and an device interfaces and protocols. deterministic instruction execution electronic equipment) directives. AES cryptographic engine for secu- Ubicom’s previous-generation and uses a memory-to-memory These processors operate with a rity applications. IP2022 processor runs at 120 architecture that reduces memory range of Via chip sets, such as the MHz and targets wired- and wire- requirements and eliminates the Via CN400 digital-media chip set. XEMICS (WWW.XEMICS.COM) less-device networking applica- need for cache as opposed to a Via’s 15ϫ15-mm nanoBGA Xemics’ XE88LC07A Radio tions. This processor also imple- traditional load/store architecture. package for the fanless Via Eden-N Machine SOC (system on chip)

56 edn | August 5, 2004 www.edn.com m i crop rocessor low-power RISC core that inte- Spartan and Virtex-II series FPGAs, chip internal precision oscillator; grates the ZoomingADC, a high- as well as with the CoolRunner nonvolatile data-storage memory; resolution sigma-delta ADC that family of CPLDs for cost-sensitive and large, working memory. Most includes a programmable pream- applications. devices integrate the micro- plifier. The ZoomingADC can The EDK (embedded- processor core with ROM, one- interface with most sensors, development kit) automates man- time-programmable memory, or including millivolt signals, without ual steps and unifies the hardware flash memory. These 8-bit micro- external components to reduce and software debugging. The EDK controllers target embedded con- the cost and the size of your design environment includes a trol and communication applica- design. Xemics offers tools and library of more than 200 intellec- tions in consumer electronics, application notes for radio devel- tual-property peripheral cores, ref- home appliances, security sys- opment. erence designs, development tems, point-of-sale terminals, PC targets autonomous battery-oper- boards, internal and third-party peripherals, and industrial and ated wireless applications, such as XILINX (WWW.XILINX.COM) tools, and widely used operating automotive applications. Zilog also voice over RF, which combines an Xilinx offers the Virtex-II Pro systems. offers the stand-alone, general- 8/22-bit RISC core with the family of FPGAs with an purpose Z80 microprocessor with BitJockey serializer/deserializer for immersed (hard) PowerPC 32-bit ZILOG (WWW.ZILOG.COM) no integrated memory. Zilog’s ISM-band transceivers. The core RISC core. Xilinx also Zilog offers the Z8 modular development tools and can maintain an ADPCM 16/4 offers the soft Micro- You can reach Technical and Z80 legacy micro- general-purpose boards include Editor Robert Cravotta at compression/decompression algo- Blaze core, which is a 1-661-296-5096, fax 1- processor architectures Zilog’s ZTP TCP/IP software to rithm at 9.5k samples/sec and configurable, general- 661-296-1087, e-mail and the Z8 Encore! and support development using the interface an audio codec and an purpose, 32-bit RISC [email protected]. eZ80 Acclaim! next- Z8 Encore!, Z8Encore! XP, and ISM-band transceiver in pseudo core that you can use generation architec- eZ80Acclaim! devices. full duplex. The XE88LC07A can with Spartan and tures. The newest operate on its own clock or use Virtex-II FPGAs. You family, the Z8Encore! Talk to us the transceiver’s clock. can use the 8-bit XP includes an Post comments via TalkBack at the The Sensing Machine SOC for PicoBlaze microcon- enhanced sigma-delta online version of this article at sensor interfacing comprises a troller core with A/D converter; an on- www.edn.com.

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