 SEOUL, Korea (AVING) -- <Visual News> Tensilica today unveiled the industry's smallest licensable 32-bit processor core ‘Diamond Standard 106Micro’ in Korea market, which is based on an industry-standard architecture.
The new Diamond Standard 106Micro core takes up only 0.26mm2 in a 130-nm G process and only 0.13mm2 in a 90-nm G process, that makes it smaller than the ARM7 or Cortex-M3 cores, yet at 1.22 Dhrystone MIPS/MHz, it delivers higher performance than the ARM9E cores.
According to the company, the low-power 106Micro is designed for simple controller applications in SoC(system-on-chip) designs, and an ideal choice for designers migrating from 8-bit and 16-bit microcontrollers to 32-bit processors.
It employs a 5-stage pipeline so it can easily achieve 250 MHz in 130G process and up to 400 MHz in 90G process technology. By switching between 24- and 16-bit narrow instructions, it achieves a higher code density than other 32/16-bit architectures.
All Diamond Standard processors are supported by an optimized set of Diamond Standard software tools and a wide range of industry infrastructure partners, who provide support with operating systems, design services, hardware prototyping and emulation, libraries and memories, EDA tools, and peripherals.
“In many SoC applications, the smallest possible microcontroller is all that's needed to coordinate the various tasks being performed on the chip,” explained Chris Rowen, Tensilica's president and CEO. “And often in devices that already have one or more other heavyweight applications processors on chip, one or more subsystems need a low-power, low-cost, localized controller,” he added.
(Picture: Chris Rowen, Tensilica's president and CEO)                 |
