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News Release from: ARC International
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 July 2001
ARC core chosen for next-generation
cameras
Conexant Systems has licensed the ARCtangent user-customisable processor for its next generation of digital imaging system chips.
Conexant Systems has licensed the ARCtangent user-customisable processor for its next generation of digital imaging system chips This follows the success of its current generation digital camera chipset, which is used by several of the world's leading camera manufacturers
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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ARC's technology will be incorporated in Conexant's next-generation, low-power, high performance imaging chips.
The company currently uses ARC's processor as a part of its Raptor II chip, which has been incorporated in many cameras, including Toshiba's 3.3Mpixel PDR-M65 and cameras from other companies like Polaroid and RCA.
Nigel Heather, vice-president of engineering, hardware IP and tools at ARC Cores, said, "By moving to the platform approach that ARC provides with its ARCtangent processor, Conexant is able to reap the real rewards of IP re-use and integration as enabled by ARC's IP portfolio.
Our aim at ARC has been to develop a system-on-chip development platform that provides the individual elements of pre-verified hardware and software IP as well as development tools.
This is unique among processor platforms since competing solutions are likely to put the onus on the SoC developer to integrate and verify all the individual IP elements that make up their SoC.
At ARC, we do that for the designer with the IP that we have provided".
ARC had won the original Raptor II design slot as a result of the ease with which its user-customisable 32bit microprocessor could be designed in - the integration of the processor into the chip was completed by Conexant's ASIC design team in just five days.
Raptor II is a powerful and highly integrated chip that includes the Raptor II advanced SIMD DSP image processing engine and ARC's core.
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