Product category:
Programmable Logic Devices
News Release from: QuickLogic | Subject: QuickMIPS
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 May 2003
Expansion for configurable MIPS
processor lineup
Three new additions to the QuickMIPS product family target applications in communications, storage area networks and industrial control.
Three new additions to the QuickMIPS product family target applications in communications, storage area networks and industrial control The novel QuickMIPS family combines an embedded MIPS processor with fully characterised, application-specific functionality, and field programmability on a single device
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 Jun 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Programmable and hard-wired logic embed together
QuickLogic has revealed its upcoming QuickMIPS ESP family with a fully characterised processor system, market-specific hard-wired functions and the industry's fastest programmable logic.
Processor and programmable logic come together
QuickLogic's QuickMIPS ESP family combines a high-performance processor with fully characterised, application specific functionality and a field programmable fabric for flexibility.
Based on QuickLogic's patented Vialink metal-to-metal technology, the programmable portion of the device employs highly reliable links to execute connections inside an array.
This on-chip "sea-of-cells" can be used to implement specific connectivity, computation, and customisation functions in a cost-effective and secure manner.
Because the QuickMIPS solution enables parallel hardware, software and system development, it provides all the benefits of a single-chip solution - increased performance, reduced power consumption and simplicity of design - at prices that are comparable to discrete embedded processor plus FPGA implementations.
"Today's systems designers are faced with severe time-to-market and system cost challenges", said Ian Ferguson, Vice President and General Manager of the QuickMIPS product group.
"The motivation behind expanding the QuickMIPS family is to offer our customers a range of CPU performance, I/O peripheral sets, and FPGA fabric sizes; while providing a single-chip solution at the price/performance points they require".
The QuickMIPS devices feature a 32bit, 233MHz MIPS CPU core that enables customers to select from a broad range of off-the-shelf software; and a flexible memory controller that supports a variety of external SDRAM, ROM and Flash configurations.
A 32bit PCI v2.2 compatible interface is also included, supporting data rates of up to 66MHz.
Two 10/100 Ethernet ports increase overall system throughput and provide direct connectivity (through the media independent interface) to a range of networking technologies.
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