Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Avago Technologies | Subject: ChipWrights CWv16 based SoC
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 12 October 2004
DSP-based SoC speeds imaging
applications
Agilent Technologies has validated the ChipWrights CWv16 DSP core in an SoC manufactured using 90nm process technology.
Agilent Technologies has validated the ChipWrights CWv16 DSP core in an SoC manufactured using 90nm process technology This core was supplied to Agilent by ChipWrights, a Waltham, Massachusetts, semiconductor company specialising in providing a new class of digital signal processing-based devices optimised for imaging-related applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The SoC operates at 400MHz, has 134 input/output signals and uses two million logic gates.
The device also includes a 2.5V PLL, DMA, Amba AHB bus bridge, as well as bus monitor and arbiter.
The ChipWrights CWv16 core at the heart of the Agilent SoC features a high-performance, highly scalable architecture comprising a RISC processor and a highly integrated, scalable array of DSP vector processing units.
It supports 64 8bit MACs per cycle and reaches application performance levels similar to the industry's fastest DSPs, but at significantly lower power points.
With the implementation of this SoC in silicon, Agilent extends its SoC and IP leadership into the 90nm generation.
Agilent was the first to integrate Intel i960 and Motorola 68K microprocessor cores into commercial and consumer SoCs and continues to integrate the industry's leading processing cores.
Also a leader in serdes IP, Agilent builds on its demonstrated success developing a modular serdes design to offer 90nm serdes cores that operate at up to 12.5Gbit/s and support a range of standards such as 8X Fibre Channel, PCI Express, and SAS/SATA. Request a free brochure from Avago Technologies ...
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