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News Release from: Agere Systems
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Team on 26 October 2004
ARM11 cores join IP portfolio
Agere Systems has added a key technology to its IP portfolio by licensing the latest ARM11 family cores for use in its SoC, ASIC and ASSP products.
Agere Systems has added a key technology to its IP portfolio by licensing the latest ARM11 family cores for use in its SoC, ASIC and ASSP products This latest licensing agreement is a continuation of the long-term relationship that exists between the two companies
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Mar 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Agere is a leading provider of ARM technology in its semiconductor products.
Last year, Agere integrated eight ARM966E-S processors into a single chip - more than any other company - allowing the company to provide a substantially more powerful solution to a leading provider of wireless base stations.
The ARM11 family's increased architectural efficiency and its ability to reach higher maximum frequencies are important to address Agere's storage area networking, hard disk drive storage, consumer, imaging and printing, wireless, and networking systems microprocessing needs.
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"Agere is very pleased with the addition of the ARM11 family to its long list of ARM cores and with our continued strong relationship with ARM", said Necip Sayiner, Vice President of Agere's Enterprise and Networking Division.
"Our ASIC design team has done performance benchmarking on the ARM11 family and we feel confident in Agere's ability to integrate this key element of our roadmap into immediate designs and provide our customers with the advantage of an experienced ARM user".
"Adding the ARM11 family to our vast experience of ARM integration will allow Agere to expand our leadership in the enterprise and networking markets".
The ARM11 family is based on the ARMv6 32/16bit architecture and features the ARM TrustZone extension for improved device security and the ARM Thumb-2 instruction set enhancement for high performance, high density code.
ARM11 family cores achieve high frequencies (335-550MHz) without compromising ARM's leadership in silicon area and power efficiency.
With DSP and SIMD extensions for media and filtering algorithms and configurable instruction and data caches, ARM11 provides clear advantages to end users.
"Agere Systems is a leader in integrating a high number of ARM processors into a single SoC", said John Cornish, Director of Product Marketing, ARM.
"The addition of the ARM11 family to Agere's long list of licensed ARM IP will enable them to address the high performance requirement of a wide range of emerging embedded applications".
Agere has licences for a range of ARM cores, from the ARM7 family to the ARM11 family, and can provide extremely fast time to market for new ASIC designs in 130 and 90nm process technologies.
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