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News Release from: AMI Semiconductor | Subject: 8051 core I3T based SoCs
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 December 2003
Controllers combine 8051 core with much
more
A new range of SoCs combines the popular 8051 processor core AMIS I3T80 mixed-signal, high-voltage technology to deliver leading edge devices for automotive, industrial and medical markets.
AMI Semiconductor (AMIS) has combined the popular 8051 processor core with its own I3T80 mixed-signal, high-voltage technology to deliver leading edge SoC devices for the automotive, industrial and medical markets The AMIS products are unique in that they offer a range of accelerated (x7) embedded 8051 cores, Flash memory, high-voltage performance and precision analogue capability on a 0.35um geometry CMOS process
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 26 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The use of I3T technology means that it is possible to integrate all these elements onto a single piece of small-geometry silicon resulting in a solution that significantly reduces the component count for a given application.
To complement the technology, AMIS offers a demonstration board and an emulation kit.
These meet customer's demands to accelerate the design cycle by allowing the concurrent development of customer software and firmware with the AMIS chip design phase.
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The demonstration board has a fixed 8051 hardware setup and limited capabilities for software development.
The emulation board, used to accelerate the project design, allows hardware architecture validation and software development by the customer.
In addition to its I3T80 high-voltage technology, AMIS also offers its 8051 compatible cores in the company's range of 0.35 and 0.5um CMOS technologies that allow the integration of higher precision analogue with low power dissipation for applications within the low voltage and wireless segments.
Serge Peeters, Microcontroller IP Manager, AMI Semiconductor said: "The Intel MCS-51 architecture still remains the most popular in the world.
Combined with the evolution in SoC devices and the steadily increasing performance required in the custom solution business, this has led AMIS to focus on a range of embedded 8051 cores.
Our design win activity has been further enhanced with the offering of demonstration boards and emulation kits, which are of great relevance to customers in our key market sectors".
He continued: "The combination of features, flexibility, geometry and the total solution approach from AMIS, has helped customers implement optimised, fully integrated SoC devices for their products in remarkably short development cycles with the minimum of risk and iterations".
AMIS has already secured 10 significant design wins with embedded 8051 processor based designs; Bosch and Siebe are two notable successes to date.
The range of embedded 8051 cores available consists of the Intel 8031 compatible C8051, the Infineon C515 compatible accelerated R80515, and the accelerated R8051 which is RISC code compatible with Intel's 8031.
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