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News Release from: Oki Electric | Subject: uPLAT series
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Core trio boosts SoC platform
Oki Electric has enhanced its uPLAT series of integrated platforms, which lower development times of SoC LSIs, with the introduction of three core products.
Oki Electric has enhanced its uPLAT series of integrated platforms, which lower development times of SoC LSIs, with the introduction of three core products Oki Electric will also provide prototyping boards for these new products
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Aug 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new core products are the low-end uPLAT-7B core, the middle-range uPLAT-7D core, and the high-end uPLAT-92 core, all of which are based upon Oki Electric's uPLAT platform and which stand to give Oki Electric's customers greater choice when selecting the products they need for SoC LSI development.
uPLAT integrated platforms and design environments provide system designers with a total solution that allows them to minimise design cycle times, increase design productivity and software content, while at the same time reducing overall system cost.
"The uPLAT, based on Oki Electric's Silicon Platform Architecture (SPA) concept, is widely recognised as a comprehensive platform-based design tool that can halve the time about 50% in case taken to develop SoC LSIs using conventional design tools, ensuring our customers' final chip designs meet their requirements", said Shinji Furuno, General Manager of Platform Development in LSI division at Oki Electric.
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"By adding this new range of core products and prototyping boards, we aim to offer our customers greater flexibility respond to customers' needs more quickly".
The three new uPLAT-based products offered by Oki Electric cover the low-end platform with an AMR7TDMI 32bit RISC CPU provided by ARM, to the high-end platform based on AMT920T from ARM.
The uPLAT-7B core is the low-end platform equipped with ATM7TDMI with no cache and low power consumption.
It is ideal for use in Bluetooth baseband controllers, PHS baseband controllers, low-end printers, and digital appliance controllers etc.
The middle range uPLAT-7D core is based on theARM7TDMI with cache.
Potential applications include VoIP equipment, digital audiovisual equipment, information appliances for automobiles, printers, and PC peripherals etc.
The high-end uPLAT-92 core is equipped with an ARM920T with cache, for use in WCDMA, PDAs, smart phones, set-top boxes etc.
Prototyping boards are available to provide a debug support system for SoCs using uPLAT-7B, 7D, and 92.
The boards work as the debug system for application programs, linking to the ARM software development tool kit (SDT2.51) from ARM, the ARM debug interface (ADI) board provided by Oki, or Multi-ICE from ARM.
The boards are implemented with APB, BRG, UART, PIO as the standard peripherals, and with Flash memory, SRAM, SDRAM as external memories.
It's also possible to add customised circuits by using FPGA and an extended board on the prototyping board.
Using prototype boards makes it possible to construct prototype chips equivalent to commercial ones, and to evaluate software and hardware.
The prototyping boards of these three products improve the SoC LSI debugging functionality of the two-year-old uPLAT-7C core prototyping board, which received Wireless Systems Design 2002 Industry Award in the category of Best Wireless Design Tool from the Wireless Systems Design Magazine.
The uniqueness of the uPLAT resides in its incorporation of the basic features common to any system onto three basic platforms: the silicon platform, the software platform, and the support platform.
The silicon platform is equipped with the minimum functions of real-time operating system (RTOS), including a CPU from ARM, an external memory controller, timer functions, an interrupt controller, and an AMBA EAHB interface, which provides easy connection to hardware IP for expandability.
The software platform includes RTOSs including uITRON, and middleware to be used on the standard interfaces.
And the support platform offers software development tool kits, LSI development kits and prototyping boards.
With the enhancement of the product line-up, Oki intends to market one million SoC LSIs based on the uPLAT platform per month in the fiscal year ending March 2003.
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