Cirrus Logic Announces Highly Integrated Compute Engine for Mobile Applications; ARM-based Processor Enables Next Generation of Low-Power Devices.FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 1996--In keeping with its strategy to provide advanced chip solutions for the network appliance (1) A specialized device for use on a network. For example, Web servers, cache servers and file servers can be implemented as general-purpose computers with the appropriate software or as network appliances, which are computers dedicated to a single function and cannot do anything and mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings markets, Cirrus Logic (company) Cirrus Logic - A manufacturer of integrated circuits including the Advanced RISC Machine and display interface processors and cards for use as Windows accelerators (requiring dedicated driver software). http://cirrus.com/. Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CRUS crus (krus) pl. cru´ra [L.] 1. leg (1). 2. a leglike part. crus ce´rebri ) today announced a single-chip mobile compute engine targeted for next-generation, battery-life sensitive, mobile applications. The CL-PS7110, based on the ARM7100, has the highest MIPs per watt (15 MIPs, 66mW peak) and lowest system power consumption of any embedded processor A CPU chip used in a system other than a general purpose workstation, desktop or laptop computer. Such chips are used by the billions every year in a myriad of products. See embedded system. available today. With this advantage, the CL-PS7110 is ideal for applications, such as high-end palmtops, mobile web browsers, smartphones, electronic dictionaries and translators. In addition to providing full system support for the newly released EPOC/3(TM) OS from Psion Software PLC, the CL-PS7110 can support all operating systems announced for the ARM processor, such as the recently announced Java OS from JavaSoft(TM), Tornado(TM) from Wind River and VRTX/mc(TM) from Microtec. "This announcement is further evidence of our strategy to leverage our company's expertise in the PC market to the emerging market for hand-held mobile devices and network appliances," said George Alexy, senior vice president of marketing at Cirrus Logic. "Along with our recently announced network compute engine for the NC, the CL-PS7110 strengthens Cirrus Logic as a broad line semiconductor supplier for this new wave of consumer devices." Alexy added that the company is developing a family of chip sets for wireless applications based on the ARM core, such as two-way paging and messaging devices that can act as wireless extensions to the Internet. The CL-PS7110 delivers the equivalent performance of a 33MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Intel(R) 486(TM) based PC. Its embedded 32-bit ARM processor core contributes to this high performance by providing 8-Kbytes of unified instruction and data cache with on-chip MMU (Memory Management Unit) The part of the computer that governs memory access. Either part of the CPU chip or housed on separate chips, the MMU controls memory partitions and virtual memory. See memory and virtual memory. MMU - Memory Management Unit . The new chip supports up to 256 Mbytes of DRAM as well as SRAM/ROM flash memory. The chip's flexible memory interfaces can be configured as 8-, 16- or 32-bits wide. With advanced power management technology that ensures the lowest power consumption in standby, idle and normal operating modes, the CL-PS7110 allows a system to consume one-half to one-tenth the energy compared to the requirements of competitive solutions. To support all required peripheral functions, the CL-PS7110 provides an LCD controller for the display, serial interfaces for communications, a DC-to-DC converter interface, a CODEC interface for telephony applications, an infrared protocol controller and 36-bit general purpose I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output pins. Packaging, Price and Availability The CL-PS7110 is packaged in a 208 pin VQFP VQFP Very Thin Quad Flat Package VQFP Very small Quad Flat Package VQFP very-fine-pitch quad flat pack , and is available now in production quantities at $18.00 per 100,000 units. Cirrus Logic is a leading manufacturer of advanced integrated circuits that perform multimedia, communications and mass storage functions. Having captured strong market positions in key sectors of the desktop and portable PC markets, the company is now extending its core technologies beyond the PC to innovate software-rich chip solutions for Internet appliances, hand-held digital assistants and communications devices, high-speed internetworking, digital wireless communications and consumer electronics. -0- Note to Editors: Additional information about Cirrus Logic and its subsidiaries is available on the worldwide web at http://www.cirrus.com or via fax-on-demand at 800/594-6414 (dial 510/249-4200 from outside the United States). CONTACT: Cirrus Logic Inc. Connie Duncan, 510/226-2346 cduncan@corp.cirrus.com Ashis Khan, 510/226-2373 ashisk@corp.cirrus.com or Tsantes & Associates Mary Jane Reiter, 408/452-8700 maryjane@tsantes.com |
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