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News Release from: Imagination Technologies | Subject: MTX family
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 08 March 2005
Frugal 32bit cores for cost-sensitive
consumer kit
The MTX family of low-power 32bit microcontroller IP cores is designed for use in cost-sensitive consumer electronics applications including mobile TV, home networking and intelligent toys.
New from Metagence - a division of Imagination Technologies - is the MTX family of low-power 32bit microcontroller IP cores for use in cost-sensitive consumer electronics applications including mobile TV, digital TV, multistandard sound processing for TV, home networking and intelligent toys David McBrien, VP Business Development, Imagination Technologies says: "New CE markets require a cost-effective controller to provide user interface, control, device driver and protocol stack execution"
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 Sep 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"With a small silicon footprint and very low power consumption, MTX is not just a controller, but the engine at the heart of a comprehensive range of IP platforms enabling mobile TV, HD video processing and TV sound processing".
In 0.13um the first member of the MTX family, the MTX 112, punches above its weight, with an operating frequency of up to 200MHz and power consumption a miserly 0.09mW/MHz.
Silicon area is only 0.26mm2.
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MTX can operate with single or multiple memory blocks dedicated to, or shared between, code and workspace functions - allowing the perfect tradeoff between performance and area for each solution.
The MTX 112 features a 16bit instruction set for improved code density, further conserving silicon area and power and allowing intelligence to be added to a device at minimal cost.
The MTX 112's ATP (advanced trigger processing) enables real-time event handling which is much more efficient than typical interrupt implementations.
The MTX is supported by the mature and successful CodeScape tools and development platform, as is Metagence's multithreaded processor Meta.
The CodeScape tools for Meta and MTX platforms are directly compatible, supporting simultaneous development with either target platform whether in the same target device or multiple target devices within the same system.
Continues McBrien: "MTX is not just another embedded controller".
"It has been conceived as the engine for comprehensive platform IP solutions built using Imagination Technologies' wide range of complementary IP".
"Licensees of these MTX platform solutions will significantly ease their implementation time, verification risk and BOM cost".
MTX is at the heart of Imagination Technologies IP platform for mobile TV.
Estimates put the market size for DVB-H digital mobile TV terminals at 100 million by 2008, rising to 300 million by 2010 and Imagination Technology believes that MTX, paired with Ensigma's UCC Mobile (universal communications coprocessor) creates a compelling ultra-low-power proposition for DVB-H, as well as ISDB-Tss, S-DMB and T-DMB.
MTX-based solutions will also target television designs requiring multistandard sound processing (MSP).
MTX is perfect for TV manufacturers who wish to integrate multistandard sound demodulation into their sets, covering FM, AM, Nicam, BTSC etc.
Imagination offers an IP platform for MSP, as well as a forthcoming solution for HD video processing.
The MTX 122, a stand-alone IP core, will follow later in 2005.
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