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News Release from: eASIC Corp | Subject: ARM926EJ processor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 05 January 2007
Processor is milestone for maskless
ASICs
eASIC Corp has added an ARM926EJ processor to its Nextreme 90nm product family.
eASIC Corp has announced the immediate availability of an ARM926EJ processor, offered in eASIC's Nextreme 90nm product family Now, FPGA, ASIC and system-on-chip designers can benefit from a low-cost, fast-turnaround design with no minimum order quantity
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 9 Jun 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"eASIC is building a wide and deep IP portfolio to offer its customers the low-cost, flexibility and time to market advantages of design-reuse, and the ARM926EJ processor is a major milestone in this roadmap", said Ronnie Vasishta, CEO of eASIC Corp.
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"The digital consumer market, which is a major industry growth driver, dictates the need to reduce cost, shorten turnaround time and embrace flexibility".
"These benefits are made possible using a maskless lithography, such as employed for our Nextreme fabric, and offering design reuse capabilities such as the ARM processor".
"We are eager to provide our customers with this very valuable yet cheap silicon real estate".
"eASIC's structured ASIC product enables the ARM926EJ processor to be made available in a configurable fabric for mass usage", said Mark Brass, Vice President Operations, Physical IP.
"This offering can significantly broaden the users' community of this processor, by eliminating the mask cost and allowing any volume production required, eASIC opens the opportunity to extend this product offering to a wide range of applications and emerging markets".
The 90nm Nextreme devices offer a powerful combination of fast turnaround prototypes to quickly verify designs together with low-cost production devices for high-volume applications.
Prototypes can be manufactured as fast as 3 weeks, using mask-less Direct-write eBeam and there is no mask charge and no minimum order quantity.
The Nextreme features include system performance of up to 350MHz, densities ranging from 350,000 to 5 million ASIC gates and up to 790 user I/Os.
The ARM926EJ processor features a Jazelle technology-enhanced 32bit RISC CPU, flexible sise instruction and data caches, tightly coupled memory (TCM) interfaces, memory management unit (MMU).
It also provides separate instruction and data AMBA AHBTM interfaces particularly suitable for multilayer AHB-based systems.
The ARM926EJ processor implements the ARMv5TEJ instruction set and includes an enhanced 16 x 32bit multiplier, capable of single cycle MAC operations.
This ARMv5TEJ instruction set includes 16bit fixed point DSP instructions to enhance performance of many signal processing algorithms and applications as well as supporting Thumb and Java byte code execution.
eASIC implemented the 32bit ARM926EJ processor using its standard design flow and obtained 150MHz typical performance.
The 90nm Nextreme family with the embedded ARM926EJ processor is available now and is well suited for use in a vast range of applications, including digital imaging, portable media players, wired communication, wireless communication, storage and industrial.
A development board is available for customers use.
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