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News Release from: Oki Electric | Subject: uPLAT-946
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 March 2004
ARM-based platform speeds SoC design
The uPLAT-946 is a platform based on an ARM946E-S microprocessor core that further enhances Oki's integrated platform series for SoC development.
The uPLAT-946 is a platform equipped with an ARM946E-S microprocessor core that further enhances Oki's integrated platform series for SoC development Oki has also released a development environment and a prototyping board for the uPLAT-946
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The uPLAT is widely recognised as a comprehensive platform-based design tool, capable of slashing the time required to develop SoC, and ensuring that our clients' final chip designs meet their requirements", said Akira Kamo, President of the Silicon Solutions Company at Oki Electric.
"The addition of uPLAT-946 to the series allows Oki to offer its customers greater choice when selecting the products they need for SoC development".
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"Oki's new ARM powered uPLAT-946 integrated platform will enable a new level of innovation in next-generation automotive, digital audio equipment and mobile phone applications", said Takio Ishikawa, President, ARM KK.
"Oki and ARM have been close partners in the development of Oki's ARM core-based SoC solutions, and this announcement is further evidence of Oki's commitment to the ARM architecture".
Oki's uPLAT is a series of integrated SoC development platforms.
Oki currently offers the uPLAT-7B, uPLAT-7C, uPLAT-7D, and uPLAT-92, soon to be joined by the uPLAT-946.
The uPLAT provides system designers with a total solution that makes it possible to minimise design cycle times and increase design productivity and software content while reducing overall system cost.
Incorporating the ARM946E-S microprocessor for its CPU core and adding peripheral functions required to run operation systems, the newly introduced uPLAT-946 platform represents the flagship of Oki's high-end uPLAT platform architecture.
The ARM946E-S processor core is a macrocell, widely used in embedded applications that require a good level of processing performance from a low-cost and low-power solution.
The processor has various features required by the embedded market, including instruction and data caches.
It also offers tightly coupled memory (TCM) interfaces, Amba AHB (advanced high-performance bus) bus interfaces, and a memory protection unit (MPU) supporting real-time operating systems (RTOS).
Along with the Amba AHB system incorporated in the existing uPLAT series, the uPLAT-946 also offers the multilayer AHB system, which allows parallel accesses from multiple masters to multiple slaves in the system.
With the multilayer AHB system, the uPLAT-946 extends the bus bandwidth in multiple masters system, improving chip performance drastically.
With complete compatibility between the multilayer AHB system and the Amba AHB system, the uPLAT-946 gives engineers even wider latitude in architectural design.
The uPLAT-946 development environment consists of a sample SoC model with a uPLAT-946 core, a test bench, and a test program.
The environment lets customers rapidly develop a variety of SoC simply by adding customer's specific circuits and intellectual property (IP).
The development environment offers two models to provide clients customers with a system bus selection capable of meeting their requirements: one model features Amba AHB system, whereas the other features a multilayer AHB system.
Oki also offers a uPLAT-946 prototyping board.
This board will allow clients to evaluate their software and circuits on FPGAs in the early development stages.
The board allows customers to develop both hardware and software under condition similar to the real SoC before actual completion.
Oki intends to market the uPLAT-946 platform for applications such as automotive information equipment, digital audio equipment, and mobile phones.
The company will begin full-scale design based on the uPLAT-946 platform in April 2004.
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