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News Release from: Faraday Technology | Subject: FA606TE
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 November 2007
Compact core eases 32bit design
migration
Ultra-low-power ARM v5 ISA compliant 32bit RISC core is specially designed for those applications which are both power and cost sensitive.
Available now from Faraday Technology, the FA606TE is an ultra-low-power ARM v5 ISA compliant 32bit RISC processor core with the synthesisable and configurable features The FA606TE is specially designed for those applications which are both power and cost sensitive, such as general microcontrollers, SSD controllers, industrial controllers, bridge controllers and portable audio/video processors
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 2 Feb 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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As applications and software become more and more sophisticated, 8 and 16bit MCUs cannot provide the performance demanded in the embedded SoC world.
The microprocessor is often expected to be a control unit, handle some algorithms and even run a simple operation system and some application software at the same time.
The synthesisable and customisable FA606TE is designed to maintain the same competitive cost and power of an 8 or 16bit MCU, but with higher performance.
"We are very glad with the delivery of the ultra-low-power ARMv5 micro processor FA606TE", says Charlie Cheng, Vice President of Marketing at Faraday Technology.
"In the 32bit embedded SoC industry, the mainstream ARM architecture gets the most customers' proven and brings the best ecosystem".
"When the customers come for the substitute of high-end MCU, ARM architecture core is mostly requested since it shortens designers' design cycle time and lowers the risk especially for those who just enter the 32bit RISC world".
The FA606TE incorporates built-in DSP extensions that enhance digital signal processing capabilities.
And its five-stage pipeline provides considerably improved clock performance.
The configurable features of FA606TE include an optional memory protection unit (MPU), local bus controller (LBC), instruction memory (I-RAM) and data memory (D-RAM) up to 8Mbyte, which enable SoC designers to customise the area driven or performance optimisation.
The FA606TE also has power down mode to further reduce the power dissipation, and auto-fill function supported in LBC speeds up the boot-up and program executing performance.
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