- ARC Introduces the World’s First 'Sonic Focus-Ready' Audio Subsystem...
- ARC International has introduced the newest addition to its ARC® Sound Subsystem family, the ARC Sound 210E. This fully programmable, licensable solution enables system-on-chip (SoC) designers to build devices that achieve high-quality audio using a very low power budget. As with all ARC Subsystem products, the AS 210E is multi-standard and supports a wide range of popular digital audio formats. The ARC Sound 210E Subsystem also supports...
http://www.arc.com
- Software Defined Silicon development kit accelerates electronic design
- XMOS Semiconductor, the creator of Software Defined Silicon, has introduced a development kit providing everything needed to develop a wide range of applications using its XS1-G4 programmable device. Designs are created using a C-based software development flow that dramatically shortens the time required to build electronic products and systems. Offering a complete hardware and software development environment, the XS1-G development kit...
http://xmos.com
- myCSoC: Design Explorations With Your Configurable System on a Chip
- Triscend Corp. has developed a configurable system on a chip (CSoC) that combines programmable logic with an 8032 microcontroller core in a single device. Application software runs in the 8032 with assistance from peripherals built with soft modules in the programmable logic. Combined with their FastChip development software, you can now design systems where both the software and hardware can be changed at a moment's notice.
http://www.xess.com/myCSoC-CDROM.html
- New ARC® Energy PRO Core Family Slashes Power Consumption By Up to 75%
- ARC International has introduced a new family of licensable, 32-bit configurable cores that will further extend its leadership in low power processing. The ARC® Energy PRO core family leverages the company’s recently announced, ultra low power Energy PRO technology to set new standards for low power consumption by reducing power usage by up to 75 percent. The Energy PRO family is aimed at the portable and embedded microcontroller markets...
http://www.arc.com
- XMOS programmable chips bring flexibility and differentiation at low cost
- XMOS Semiconductor, the creator of Software Defined Silicon (SDS), has announced its first family of programmable chips. The XS1-G product family comprises three devices offering a choice of 1,2 or 4 of the company's XCore(TM) event-driven, multi-threaded processor tiles and are priced at $1-10 in volume. Employing an entirely software based design flow that uses C and the XMOS originated XC programming language, XS1-G eliminates the...
http://www.xmos.com/Press/xmos0019.html
- Tensilica’s New GUI Helps Cut Chip Energy Consumption
- Tensilica, Inc. today announced that it has added a new graphical user interface (GUI) to its popular Xenergy estimator, a unique energy estimator for both Xtensa configurable processors and Diamond Standard processors. This ''first of its kind'' tool allows software developers to evaluate trade-offs, so their software can be optimized for power, and lets hardware designers optimize the design of Xtensa configurable processors for total energy...
http://www.tensilica.com/news_events/pr_2008_03_31.htm
- Stretch Announces S6106 Software Configurable Processor and S6106 IP Camera Reference Design Kit
- Stretch Inc., the pioneer and leader in software configurable processors, today announced the newest member of its highly acclaimed S6000 family of software configurable processors. The Stretch S6106 software configurable processor features low operating power and an ultra compact 17mm X 17mm plastic ball grid array package that allows it to be used in space and power constrained applications. Featured in Stretch’s new S6106 IP Camera...
http://www.stretchinc.com/news/pr_080508.php
- C/OS-II
- µC/OS-II, The Real-Time Kernel is a highly portable, ROMable, very scalable, preemptive real-time, multitasking kernel (RTOS) for microprocessors and microcontrollers. µC/OS-II can manage up to 63 application tasks. Over 100 microprocessor ports available to DOWNLOAD.
http://www.micrium.com/
- Linux on Xtensa
- This portal is the primary resource for the community of developers and users of the Linux operating system on Xtensa processors. The Xtensa processor architecture is a configurable, extensible, and synthesizable 32-bit RISC processor core. Processor and SOC vendors can select from various processor options and even create customized instructions in addition to a base ISA to tailor the processor for a particular application. You have...
http://www.linux-xtensa.org/
- Processor Designs for Embedded Systems
- The IBM PC and the Macintosh, both launched around 1982, are the last well-known computer lines that were based on traditional CISC processors. That is a processor having a rich and diverse instruction set thanks to an internal read-only microprogram store for the control of its internal operation. In 1980, Patterson (UC Berkeley) and Hennessy (Stanford) proposed a different kind of computer processor, a simplified but efficiently...
http://www.imsystech.com
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