Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Toshiba Electronics Europe | Subject: MeP User Forum
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 23 January 2003
Multimedia SoCs examined
at Embedded World
At Embedded World 2003 Toshiba will be hosting a forum targeted at visitors looking to dramatically reduce the silicon and development time overheads associated with SoC multimedia applications
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At Embedded World 2003, Toshiba Electronics will be hosting a forum targeted at visitors looking to dramatically reduce the silicon and development time overheads associated with SoC multimedia applications. The MeP User Forum will be based on Toshiba's open and scalable MeP media embedded processor, a deeply embedded RISC platform that enables designers to develop a variety of optimised SoCs for applications ranging from low-power consumer electronics to high-performance communications systems.
Toshiba has used the MeP technology platform successfully in the past to develop SoCs for the digital consumer domain and is now opening the technology up to design partners and SoC customers.
The aim of the MeP User Forum is to bring together SoC development engineers, software designers and R and D managers with system architects, tool providers and design partners actively involved in supporting the MeP concept and developing MeP-based modules.
Toshiba's MeP concept is based on a completely open and scalable architecture that delivers reductions in terms of cost, power consumption, die size and development time when compared with conventional processor and software solutions.
Further reading
Microcontroller has SuperFlash code memory
Flash-based 16bit microcontroller for low-power portable applications
Compact microcontroller has many serial interfaces
A compact 8bit CMOS microcontroller combines 16kByte of SuperFlash memory with a large number of serial interfaces and new analogue IP blocks to detect low voltages and perform power on reset
At the heart of this architecture is a low-power 32bit configurable and fully synthesisable MeP RISC core, which is available to OEMs, integrators and design houses.
The MeP platform provides a powerful, integrated hardware and software development environment that facilitates customised configurations and extensions of the basic MeP processor core.
As a result, third parties can add their own extensions such as DSPs, VLIW coprocessors and instruction sets to create optimised, application-specific MeP modules.
Toshiba's MeP User Forum begins at 10.00am on 19th February and concludes at 5.00pm on the same day.
Entry to the forum is free of charge, and all registered participants will receive a free gift at the MeP reception desk at the Embedded World conference.
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