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News Release from: ARM | Subject: ARM1176JZF-S
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 January 2006
Enhanced processor boasts 920DMIPS
performance
A groundbreaking high-performance implementation of the ARM1176JZF-S processor achieves a frequency of more than 750MHz in a 90nm foundry process while occupying only 2.4mm2 of silicon.
ARM has unveiled a groundbreaking high performance implementation of the ARM1176JZF-S processor, enhanced with the ARM Artisan Advantage cell library and memories, which achieves a frequency of more than 750MHz in a high-performance 90nm foundry process while occupying only 2.4mm2 of silicon area This represents a significant performance increase through a combination of collaborative design, advanced physical IP and process technology
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Oct 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The industry leading combination of the ARM processor business and the physical IP business acquired from Artisan a year ago is delivering technically as well as commercially", said Mike Inglis EVP Marketing and Business Development.
"Our combined engineering teams have worked together to create a best-in-class 90nm design for semiconductor partners serving the high volume digital consumer market".
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The high-performance design is a fully routed, reference layout of the ARM1176JZF-S processor including 16Kbyte instruction cache, 16Kbyte data cache, four high-performance Amba 3 AXI interconnect interfaces to speed instruction and data access, and a vectorised floating-point unit (VFP).
Based on the award winning ARM11 family, the ARM1176JZF-S processor has been widely adopted for next generation consumer applications due to its high-end performance, energy efficiency and rich feature set.
"The new 750MHz implementation of the ARM1176JZF-S processor illustrates the benefits of combining a complete range of ARM technology, in terms of performance, compatibility, lower risk and time to market", said John Cornish, VP Marketing, Processors Division, ARM.
"The ARM Advantage library and memories combined with the ARM1176JZF-S processor highlights our commitment to providing leading-edge solutions for applications which need a higher level of performance with full software compatibility".
"This is the latest of several targeted implementations that combine our industry-leading processor and physical IP, to demonstrate high performance in a low cost and power footprint".
The ARM Advantage family of cell libraries and memories delivers high-performance and low-power, and provides an out-of-the-box solution for demanding digital home, entertainment, and other high-end applications.
The ARM Advantage family reinforces the powerful synergy between ARM's processor and physical IP products.
Combined, these complementary technologies enable ARM to offer the industry's broadest portfolio of system-on-chip (SoC) IP, and deliver performance and power optimised processor implementations for deep submicron silicon design.
The ARM1176JZF-S synthesisable processor is targeted at consumer and wireless devices such as digital TVs, set-top boxes, games consoles and mobile phones.
The processor incorporates ARM Jazelle technology for Java acceleration, ARM TrustZone technology, a key enabling technology, targeted specifically at securing consumer products running open Operating Systems (OS), such as Symbian OS, Linux and Windows CE, and a vector floating-point (VFP) coprocessor to provide powerful acceleration for embedded 3D graphics.
The high speed ARM1176JZF-S processor implementation with 16Kbyte instruction and data caches will run at more than 750MHz, with a die size of only 2.4mm2 and less than 500mW of power, including caches.
The ARM1176JZF-S processor, and the Advantage cell library and memories for the TSMC 90GT process, are available now.
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