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News Release from: ARC International
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 04 May 2001
Vaishali to use ARC core in Bluetooth
chips
Vaishali Semiconductor has selected ARC's technology for its Bluetooth product family.
Vaishali Semiconductor has selected ARC's technology for its Bluetooth product family ARC's technology was selected because of its features suited to low-cost, battery-powered applications, and the library of peripheral functions available from ARC to accelerate product development
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Vaishali Semiconductor is a California-based fabless semiconductor company, focused on providing leading edge semiconductor products aimed at broadband transceiver technology such as 10Gbit Ethernet, Infiniband and Bluetooth wireless networking ASSPs.
Dr David Sear, CEO of Vaishali, said, "We evaluated all of the leading-edge suppliers of processor cores to ensure that we chose one which would give our products a real competitive advantage.
We have entered into a comprehensive licence program with ARC and we have found the company to be extremely responsive in helping us get the tools together and get trained in their use, so that our project could get off the ground rapidly".
He adds, "Furthermore, we have found that ARC, through its subsidiaries, has been busy building a powerful library of peripheral functions such as a USB engine, which offers us a rapid time-to-market with substantial added value to our products".
Vaishali chose ARC's 32bit RISC core because it is a synthesisable "soft" core with an extremely small die area.
Chris Stacey, director of Bluetooth development at Vaishali, comments, "It offers us plenty of performance at a very low power consumption, making it ideally suited to the market demands for low cost, battery-powered Bluetooth-enabled semiconductor devices.
From a system designer's viewpoint, the ability to design custom ARC instructions so that embedded software can be optimised for performance and memory utilisation is extremely attractive.
Unlike cores only available as "hard" macros, ARC's processor can be engineered along with all the other functions to tailor the design to the needs of the application".
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