SuperH Announces SH-5 CPU Core Support for Windows CE .NET; Microsoft Embedded Operating System Now Available for 64-bit SH-5 RISC CPU Core.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Embedded Systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. Conference San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden 2003 Booth #2126 SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.; BRISTOL, England & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 2003 SuperH, Inc., the supplier of the highest performing multimedia RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. cores, today announced that its 64-bit SH-5 RISC CPU core has been added to the list of CPU cores that are supported by the Microsoft Windows CE .NET 4.0 embedded operating system An operating system used in special-purpose applications (embedded systems). Embedded operating systems are typically very compact and often designed for real time operations. See embedded Linux, QNX, OS-9, Windows XP Embedded, Windows CE, VxWorks and Symbian OS. . The SuperH SH-4 and SH-5 cores are targeted at digital consumers, car information systems (CIS Cis (sĭs), same as Kish (1.) (1) (CompuServe Information Service) See CompuServe. (2) (Card Information S )/telematics, personal multimedia, and residential/SOHO gateways. "The SuperH SH-5 CPU is a valuable addition to the available processors for Windows CE .NET 4.0," said Scott Horn, director of the Embedded and Appliance Platforms Group at Microsoft Corp. "The SH-5 core combined with the Windows CE .NET 4.0 operating system enables designers to create high-performance, feature-rich devices such as set-top boxes, state-of-the-art personal multimedia devices, and multichannel Using two or more paths for transmission or processing. It can refer to a variety of architectures including (1) multiple I/O channels between the CPU and peripheral devices, (2) multiple wires in a cable, (3) multiple "logical" channels within a single wire or fiber or (4) multiple voice over IP and IP video phones with advanced audio and video encoding." The optimized SH-5 Microsoft eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0 programming environment for Windows CE supports both the vector 3D-graphic floating point unit (FPU (Floating Point Unit) A computer circuit that handles floating point operations. FPU - floating-point unit ), and a comprehensive set of SIMD (Single Instruction stream Multiple Data stream) A computer that performs one operation on multiple sets of data. It is typically used to add or multiply eight or more sets of numbers at the same time for multimedia encoding and rendering as well as scientific instructions through C intrinsic functions. The compiler provides programmers easy access to the powerful operations without needing to hand-code in assembly language. The compiler allocates and keeps track of registers, reschedules instructions for optimal execution order, and reschedules the prepare target instruction of the static split-branch architecture to avoid stalls due to branches. "We are pleased to announce the completion of Windows CE .NET port to the SH-5 core architecture," said Jon Frosdick, Director of Software at SuperH, Inc. "An SH-5 based CPU running Windows CE .NET provides our customers with some of the key elements in building successful embedded systems of tomorrow." Additionally both the Windows CE. NET kernel and eMbedded Visual C++ have been written to take full advantage of the SH-5 architecture by supporting both SHcompact and SHmedia mode, providing programmers with the flexibility to optimize code as appropriate for small size or high performance. "This announcement continues the long-term relationship between Microsoft and the SuperH architecture," said Atsushi Hasegawa, Director of Hardware Engineering at SuperH, Inc. "The SuperH architecture has supported Windows CE from its creation starting with the third generation SH-3 devices from Hitachi and continues now with the SH-5 CPU core from SuperH, Inc." The SH-5 Windows CE .NET Plug In will soon be available for ordering from Microsoft and its Windows CE Distributors. SuperH will showcase the SH-5 Windows CE .NET Plug-In at the Embedded Systems Conference West in San Francisco later this month, with a demonstration highlighting the multimedia capabilities of the SH-5 at the SuperH booth (#2126). About SuperH, Inc. SuperH, Inc. is a semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) licensing company and is the leading supplier of multimedia RISC CPU cores to companies building system-on-chip (SoC) products. SuperH, Inc. develops RISC CPU cores, the SuperHyway Bus(TM) on-chip interconnect and software development tools. The SuperH(TM) family today includes the 32-bit SH-4 and 64-bit SH-5 CPU cores and is ideally suited to multimedia applications that require a single CPU core executing a mix of general purpose code and DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive algorithms. SuperH CPU cores are targeted at consumer, automotive, telecom and handheld multimedia appliance markets with specific emphasis on set top box, residential gateway, car information systems, modems, digital camera and multimedia players. Further information about SuperH, Inc. and SuperH products can be found at www.superh.com. Note to Editors: SuperH(TM) is a trademark owned by Renesas Technology Corp. |
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