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Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Zilog
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 11 July 2003
Processor tops French poll
Zilog has received this year's prestigious Electron D'Or award for best new microprocessor, in the competition organised by French electronics magazine, Electronique.
Zilog has received this year's prestigious Electron D'Or award for best new microprocessor, in the competition organised by French electronics magazine, Electronique The Electron D'Or award has been in existence for 7 years
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Dec 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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This year's awards selection was made by a panel of highly respected academics and professionals from the electronics industry.
In the category of processors, to win the award, Zilog's eZ80Acclaim! outperformed products from other major semiconductor suppliers including Hitachi, Texas Instruments and Intel.
The eZ80Acclaim! family was recognised as processor of the year due to innovative integration and cost effective performance.
The feature set includes: a 50MHz Ez80 core, an embedded Ethernet MAC, on chip Flash memory of up to 256Kbyte, a PLL, a TCP/IP stack, and a 24bit address bus that provides 16Mbyte of linear address.
Zilog's President, Mike Burger, expressed his delight in receiving the award: "It's an honour for Zilog to receive this prestigious award.
Our focus is to provide innovative integrated solutions that offer our customers fast time to market, low system cost and embedded connectivity.
Designed for cost-sensitive, high-performance applications, the family provides direct Internet connectivity, an optimised, power-efficient pipelined architecture and is particularly suited for industrial, home automation, security, point of sale and vending applications".
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