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Product category: Intellectual Property Cores
News Release from: Freescale Semiconductor | Subject: E200 core family
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 03 April 2007

Power Architecture core available to
license

Freescale is to license its e200 cores through an agreement with semiconductor intellectual property licensing specialist IPextreme.

Extending the reach of Power Architecture technology in the embedded market, Freescale Semiconductor is licensing its e200 core family to designers of system-on-chip (SoC) devices and application-specific semiconductor products (ASSPs) Freescale will license its e200 cores, which are widely used in the automotive industry, through an agreement with semiconductor intellectual property (IP) licensing specialist IPextreme

Freescale and IPextreme are members of Power.org, the open, collaborative organisation that enables, develops and promotes Power Architecture technology.

"Licensing our Power Architecture e200 core family through IPextreme is a watershed development for the industry and our customers", said Paul Grimme, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Freescale's Transportation and Standard Products Group.

"This licensing arrangement will help further extend Power Architecture technology within the automotive industry and help to proliferate e200 cores into other markets, such as low-end, low-power embedded network applications".