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News Release from: LSI Europe | Subject: ARM7TDMI-S processor core
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 August 2004
ASIC platform gains compact ARM core
LSI Logic has added the industry standard ARM7TDMI-S processor core and an Amba reference design to its RapidChip Platform ASIC technology.
LSI Logic has added the industry standard ARM7TDMI-S processor core and an Amba reference design to its RapidChip Platform ASIC technology The ARM7TDMI-S processor and reference design are RapidReady certified and are part of the company's CoreWare intellectual property (IP) library
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Customers can now easily use one or more embedded ARM processors in their RapidChip designs.
With this expanded IP offering, LSI Logic continues to help reduce risk and time-to-revenue for a broad range of designs.
"The majority of ASIC customers need an embedded processor, and our goal is to provide easy access to one or more ARM processors".
"With the addition of the ARM7TDMI-S processor core, RapidChip customers now have access to a firm processor usable anywhere in the transistor fabric", said Harmel Sangha, Director CoreWare Marketing, LSI Logic Corp.
"Also, the Amba reference design, usable with the ARM7TDMI-S, ARM926EJ-S and ARM966E-S cores in RapidChip, allows our customers to easily integrate processors in their designs, reducing design risk and turnaround time".
The ARM7TDMI-S is the smallest, most area efficient ARM core that can run both the 32bit ARM and 16bit Thumb instruction sets.
With the availability of the ARM7TDMI-S processor in the RapidChip Platform ASIC technology, all RapidChip slices can incorporate multiple ARM processors that can be implemented anywhere in the transistor fabric.
In addition, select RapidChip Foundation, RapidChip Integrator and RapidChip Xtreme slices offer the ARM926EJ-S and the ARM966E-S processors as either diffused or processor Landing Zone based hard macros.
The RapidReady certified Amba reference design provides all the basic components typically needed in embedded processor design such as an Internal SRAM, AHB to APB bridge, external SRAM/Flash controller, UART, GPIO, timer and interrupt controller with a framework for easy integration and customization of the processor based system.
Starting a processor subsystem development with a reference design eliminates the need to create the common processor components and simplifies the ability to add, remove or modify components as needed to personalise designs, thus saving months of design time.
Designers benefit from the reduced risk of the reference design's silicon-proven components, thus allowing time to focus their engineering resources on differentiating their products.
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