ARM has licensed the Imagination Technologies PowerVR MBX Lite 3D graphics IP core to Centrality Communications for use in next-generation GPS SoC products.
ARM has licensed the Imagination Technologies PowerVR MBX Lite 3D graphics IP core to Centrality Communications for use in next-generation GPS SoC products. Imagination Technologies and ARM have a long-term joint development agreement for the integration of PowerVR graphics cores alongside ARM microprocessor cores. Under the terms of the agreement, ARM markets and licenses the PowerVR graphics and video cores to its customer base, for use with ARM microprocessor families.

Says David McBrien, VP Business Development, Imagination Technologies: ‘This collaboration enables Centrality, a world leader in GPS SoC with a reputation for innovation, to access the state of the art graphics capabilities of PowerVR MBX and the ARM architecture and deliver an advanced navigation experience to its customers’.

Says Rob Baxter, President and Chief Executive Officer, Centrality: ‘We have already positioned our processor family as the most cost-effective silicon platform for high-functionality devices’.

‘This partnership with Imagination Technologies will enable us to continue to fully leverage our silicon across a wealth of potential markets by including market leading graphics technology’.

Under the terms of its licensing arrangements Imagination Technologies receives licence fees and royalty revenues on SoCs incorporating Imagination Technologies’ IP shipped by partners.

The XFI serdes core offers single-lane operation up to 11.1Gbit/s to allow for forward error correction.
New from LSI Logic, the XFI serdes core offers single-lane operation up to 11.1Gbit/s to allow for forward error correction. The XFI serdes core enables an SoC device to drive an XFP optical module, resulting in compact, cost-effective designs for 10Gbit/s packet processing a need driven by the explosion of packet-based traffic in network systems. Common to Sonet/SDH and Ethernet, 10Gbit/s is widely regarded as a ‘convergence rate’ for carrying packet data, packet voice, video, storage and traditional time division multiplexing traffic.

The LSI industry leading XFI serdes is optimised for high performance, low power consumption and minimum size.

The parallel datapath widths are selectable for 32 or 64bit for flexible integration, allowing users to trade-off cost versus power consumption.

The XFI serdes includes programmable receive equalisation and adjustable transmit output swings.

To enable thorough test and channel optimisation, the serdes includes integrated BIST (built-in self test) and an adjustable receiver sample point for BER (bit error rate) margin testing.

These features enable significant cost reduction and exemplify the commitment LSI places on Design for Manufacturability (DFM).

For the first use of XFI serdes technology, LSI partnered with Ample Communications to develop the Redhawk two-port 10GE MAC.

‘Ample Communications leveraged the leading serdes technology from LSI to deliver its two port 10 gigabit Ethernet MAC’, said Marek Tlalka, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Ample Communications.

‘Our collaboration with LSI resulted in a standard product that offers system suppliers a best-in-class line rate and an oversubscribed 10 GE solution that dramatically reduces power, space and system cost’.

‘We partner with fast moving companies like Ample to develop innovative products’, said Jeff Richardson, Executive Vice President, Custom Solutions Group, LSI Logic.

‘The right-first-time Redhawk product showcases both our complex SoC expertise and Ample’s advanced Ethernet expertise’.

Imagination Technologies will be showcasing the latest applications processors using its PowerVR graphics and video cores on its stand this week at the 3GSM World Congress 2006.
Imagination Technologies will be showcasing the latest applications processors and development systems from its licensing partners, new OEM handsets using those application processors, and advanced multimedia content enabled by its PowerVR graphics and video cores, on its stand this week at the 3GSM World Congress 2006 in Barcelona, Spain. Licensing partners and OEM handset manufacturers on the stand will include: Freescale, Intel, Renesas, Samsung, SKTelecom, Sony Ericsson, and Texas Instruments. Imagination’s PowerVR Insider partners on the stand will include: Acrodea, Aspyr Media, Esmertec, Fathammer, Futuremark, HI Corporation, Bling Games by Lagardere Active, Pulse Interactive, Superscape, Tao Group, TAT and The Code Monkeys.

The latest mobile application processors from Imagination’s licensing partners will be on show at 3GSM including advanced user-interface demonstrations, hardware accelerated Java (JSR 184/239) implementations and stunning 3D games content.

Application processor and handset demonstrations include: Freescale i.MX31 development platform; Intel i2700G products including Dell Axim X50v/X51v and Pepperpad; Renesas SHMobile3 development platform; Samsung S3C2460 development platform; stunning 3D games from SKTelecom; Sony Ericsson P990i running 3D applications and games on symbian OS 9.1; and Texas Instruments OMAP2420 and OMAP2430 software development platforms.

PowerVR Insider demonstrations include: Acrodea’s VIVID UI and VIVID Message; Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 Pocket PC Edition from Aspyr Media; Fathammer games content on SKTeletech IM 8300, Motorola MS 550, and Dell Axim X50v/51v; Futuremark’s 3DMarkMobile06 benchmark, running on six platforms; HI Corporation’s MascotCapsule V4; the upcoming driving game with an hip-hop attitude from Bling Games by Lagardere Active on OMAP2420/2430; Pulse Interactive’s QuakeMobile and Expansion Packs; a mixed 2D/3D mobile TV user interface from TAT; SuperScape Java games on OMAP2420 using Esmertec’s Java Virtual Machine; Tao Intent on OMAP2420 running a suite of premium native 3D games applications; and The Code Monkeys’ extreme sport game Jump.

Says David McBrien, VP Business Development, Imagination Technologies: ‘PowerVR MBX is a significant step forward for mobile graphics and the de facto standard today’.

‘We are delighted that at 3GSM 2006 we will bring to visitors demonstrations of the latest advanced PowerVR enabled content’.

Imagination Technologies, one of the world’s top ten IP companies (Gartner), provides PowerVR IP to partners including Centrality Communications, Freescale, Intel, Philips, Renesas, Samsung, Sunplus and Texas Instruments.

PowerVR MBX, which exceeds OpenGL ES 1.x requirements, delivers massive triangle and fill rates along with full 3D features such as skinning, FSAA, curved surfaces, per-pixel lighting and texture compression.

PowerVR SGX, the new generation PowerVR shader based graphics and video technology family, is part of the PowerVR Series5 scalable and fully programmable shader graphics and video core family.

With state-of-the-art support for 2D and 3D PowerVR SGX has an industry-leading feature set that exceeds OGL 2.0 shader and Microsoft Vertex and Pixel Shader Model 3 requirements.

Imagination Technologies is demonstrating PowerVR support for the OpenVG API on the company’s stand at the 3GSM World Congress 2006 in Barcelona, Spain until 16th February 2006.
Imagination Technologies is demonstrating PowerVR support for the OpenVG API on the company’s stand at the 3GSM World Congress 2006 in Barcelona, Spain until 16th February 2006. PowerVR MBX, the leading mobile graphics acceleration solution, offers full acceleration for OpenVG, achieving many times the performance of software implementations with significantly reduced power consumption. OpenVG is an industry-standard, cross-platform API that provides a low-level hardware acceleration interface for vector graphics libraries such as SVG.

OpenVG is targeted at handheld devices that require portable acceleration of high-quality vector graphics for compelling user interfaces and text on small screen devices.

Says David McBrien, VP Business Development, Imagination Technologies: ‘Mobile devices need the smooth, high-quality 2D vector graphics to enable high-quality user interfaces and ultra-readable text on small screens’.

‘With support for OpenVG PowerVR can provide a low-power consumption solution with a high level of acceleration for 2D graphics such as SVG, PDF and Postscript’.

‘This accelerated, scalable anti-aliased vector graphics solution opens up new possibilities for advanced UI, navigation applications, games, e-books, screensavers and multimedia content’.

PowerVR SGX, Imagination’s new generation PowerVR shader based graphics and video technology family, newly available for licensing, also supports OpenVG.

Imagination Technologies is presenting its comprehensive array of technologies targeted towards mobile system-on-chip devices this week on its stand at the 3GSM World Congress.
Imagination Technologies is presenting its comprehensive array of technologies targeted towards mobile system-on-chip devices this week on its stand at the 3GSM World Congress 2006 in Barcelona, Spain. Says David McBrien, VP Business Development, Imagination Technologies: ‘At 3GSM 2006 we have the latest game and user-interface content for mobile multimedia processors running on Linux, Symbian, Java and Windows Mobile operating systems’. ‘We are debuting both accelerated OpenVG support for PowerVR and our latest multistandard Mobile TV receiver platform as well as showing some of the latest end user products, including a wide range of PowerVR enabled mobile phones from major brands’.

Imagination Technologies cores are available to implement each of the key mobile technology areas.

All the cores are available as soft IP and ship with synthesis scripts, a verification test suite to ensure correct implementation of the design in SoCs, and hardware implementation and user guides.

Imagination is demonstrating this world-leading technology for mobile devices in application areas including: mobile graphics; mobile TV; mobile video cores; mobile multimedia; and digital radio and audio.

Imagination’s partners will also be showing the latest content and devices based on Imagination’s technology including: Acrodea, Aspyr Media, Esmertec, Fathammer, Freescale, Futuremark, HI Corporation, Intel, Lagardere Active, Pulse Interactive, Renesas, Samsung, SKTelecom, Sony Ericsson, Superscape, TAO, TAT, Texas Instruments and The Code Monkeys.

Continues McBrien: ‘We have developed a portfolio of innovative silicon and software technology which is bringing advanced capabilities to today’s multimedia and communication devices’.

‘As well as being deployed by our licensees in a wide range of mobile applications processors this technology is powering hundreds of OEM products, making the mobile world more compelling than ever before’.

Imagination Technologies, one of the world’s top ten IP companies (source: Gartner), provides PowerVR IP to partners including Centrality Communications, Freescale, Intel, Philips, Renesas, Samsung, Sunplus and Texas Instruments.

Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR MBX is the de-facto standard for 2D/3D graphics acceleration in the mobile multimedia market, from mobile phone handsets to PDAs and in-car infotainment systems.

PowerVR MBX is used by the majority of the top ten semiconductor companies in the world for their mobile graphics solutions.

Using tile-based rendering, PowerVR MBX delivers full hardware acceleration of 32bit pixel blending, hidden surface elimination, multi-texturing, anisotropic filtering and texture compression.

The optional vertex geometry processor (VGP) provides programmable vertex shading.

PowerVR MBX is fully compatible with all industry standard graphics APIs.

Reference implementations are available for OpenGL ES on SymbianOS and Linux; Direct3D on Windows CE; MGL (PowerVR native API) on SymbianOS and Linux; Java3D; and OpenVG.

PowerVR SGX, the new generation PowerVR shader based graphics and video technology family, targets the requirements of mobile embedded graphics and video processing.

It is based around the fully programmable multithreaded Universal Scalable Shader Engine, enabling a feature set that exceeds the requirements of OpenGL 2.0 and Microsoft Shader Model 3, enabling 2D, 3D and video processing in a single core.

All PowerVR graphics solutions from Imagination Technologies are backed up with dedicated support - both technical and co-marketing - for content developers and publishers across multiple hardware platforms and software environments, providing an enviable base of 3rd party content.

Imagination’s Kurosawa mobile TV platform is a low-power demodulation platform for multi-standard mobile TV - supporting DVB-H, T-DMB, Enhanced Packet Mode DAB and ‘One Seg’ ISDB-T.

Built around the UCC Mobile (Universal Communications Coprocessor) core, which provides PHY layer demodulation, the Kurosawa platform also integrates hardware to support the DVB-H Link Layer and an MTX embedded controller for system housekeeping.

Kurosawa provides a complete demodulation solution, from digitised IF or I/Q input, through demodulation and error-correction, to provide multiple DMA IP datagram output streams for DVB-H, and MPEG-2 transport stream for T-DMB and ‘One Seg’ ISDB-T.

The PowerVR MVED1 core combines a multistandard video decode accelerator suitable for baseline profile H.264, Advanced Simple Profile MPEG-4, and Main Profile MPEG-2, with an encode accelerator suitable for baseline profile H.263, baseline profile H.264, and Simple Profile MPEG-4.

Both encoder and decoder support up to SD resolutions.

For playback-only applications, the PowerVR MVDA2 is an efficient multi-standard video decode accelerator, designed to accelerate decode of MPEG-2, MPEG-4, VC-1 (WMV9) and H.264 video streams, offloading the processor from this CPU-intensive task and reducing system power consumption.

Multi-standard HD decode, implemented completely in hardware, is supported through the dedicated PowerVR MSVDX core.

The PDP Lite (pixel display pipeline) has been developed to enable video and graphic content from multiple sources to be displayed simultaneously with very high quality and a small footprint, providing separate graphic, video and cursor planes that target a QVGA to VGA resolution display.

The digital radio platform from Imagination Technologies is the de-facto standard for DAB digital radio, and supports DAB/DRM digital radio, as well as soft FM and soft AM radio reception.

The platform also supports pause, rewind and record of live digital radio as well as an electronic programme guide (EPG), allowing the digital radio to act as a personal radio recorder.

The platform is built around the UCC Mobile core and META RISC/DSP processor, and supports all major digital audio decode and processing standards, with DSP software running on META, facilitating the integration of digital radio and digital audio to create the next generation of personal media players.

The revolutionary multi-threaded architecture of META allows the execution of multiple threads, enabling multiple time-critical DSP-rich applications and non real-time general purpose tasks to run concurrently on the same processor, reducing power consumption and silicon area whilst increasing throughput.

The Technology Partnership has developed a mobile TV demonstrator for Neomagic.
The Technology Partnership (TTP), Europe’s leading independent technology development and licensing company, has developed a mobile TV demonstrator for Neomagic, a leader and pioneer in developing and delivering very low-power solutions for multimedia-rich mobile phones and handheld devices. TTP collaborated with Neomagic to develop a mobile TV solution that allows handset manufacturers and OEMs to quickly bring low cost feature phones to market for receiving mobile TV broadcasts. The demonstrator, based on TTP’s DAB-IP mobile digital TV software and Neomagic’s flagship MiMagic 6+ applications processor, was shown at the 3GSM World Congress with live broadcasts from BT Movio’s mobile TV service.

Commenting on the significance of this mobile TV demonstrator, Martin Orrell, General Manager of DAB-IP at TTP said: ‘This is more than just a demonstrator - we’ve shown that a system is now available that is capable of supporting all the major broadcast standards including DAB-IP/DMB and DVB-H, and can help reduce time to market for a handset by as much as 50%’.

‘That means manufacturers wanting to get into the low cost, low power feature phone market for mobile TV, regardless of the broadcast standard or region, can do so quickly with a proven solution based on our DAB-IP software’.

The DAB-IP technology from TTP includes both TV and radio reception and will support the main digital broadcast standards for delivering TV to mobile devices - DAB/DMB and DVB-H.

Such independence of broadcast and transmission hardware standards makes it suitable for major markets around the world - and it can be adapted for feature phones, smartphones, PDAs and media players running all major operating systems.

The DAB-IP software will include support for both H.264 and Microsoft Windows Media Video (WMV) codecs.

This means that the mobile TV solution supports multiple standards, making it suitable for receiving broadcast mobile TV in different regions.

The MiMagicT 6+ from Neomagic is an applications processor which delivers rich multimedia content and low power consumption for imaging and multimedia-centric handheld devices.

Its unique integrated high-performance multimedia engine provides an audio/video decoder solution capable of handling simultaneous H.264 video and audio decoding, delivering high-performance 3D graphics.

NeoMagic Corporation’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Doug Young, added: ‘We are very pleased and excited about the result of our collaboration with TTP’.

‘Our combined solution has shown that it is possible for operators like BT Movio to offer mobile TV services using feature phones that deliver the capabilities that their customers are demanding using a technology solution that is available now’.

LSI Logic has licensed its ZSP digital signal processor core to Sequans Communications, a fabless semiconductor company and supplier of silicon and software for broadband wireless access.
LSI Logic has licensed its ZSP digital signal processor (DSP) core to Sequans Communications, a fabless semiconductor company and leading supplier of silicon and software for broadband wireless access. Sequans will implement the ZSP core as part of its Subscriber Station system-on-chip (SoC) for the emerging IEEE802.16e mobile WiMAX market. ‘As our customers build their WiMAX-compliant systems for worldwide deployment, flexibility and scalability become critical elements in our design’, said Georges Karam, President and CEO, Sequans Communications.

‘The LSI ZSP core allows us to balance hard-wired fixed logic and programmable DSP functionality to achieve the necessary flexibility to address changes in the WiMAX 802.16e specification and customer and region-specific requirements with the same chipset’.

‘The well-balanced implementation also helped to achieve our cost, performance and power consumption goals which are critical to the success of WiMAX 802.16e mobile within devices such as cellphones, notebooks and PDAs’.

‘The scalability of the ZSP architecture allows Sequans to select the most suitable core for their current implementation and respond quickly to changing specifications and regional requirements, thus maximising the revenue and the over all return on investment for their product before it is necessary to design a new chip’, said Prasad Kalluri, Senior Director, DSP Products Division, LSI Logic.

Ideal for wireless applications ranging from 3G to WiMAX, the ZSP core delivers dual-multiplier-accumulator (MAC) capabilities in an efficient footprint with low-power consumption.

By licensing the ZSP technology, Sequans now joins a growing number of companies including Yamaha, Broadcom, Renesas, PMC-Sierra and UTStarcom to implement LSI ZSP cores in their wireless, voice and multimedia applications.

LSI Logic has added the ZSP410, ZSP520 and ZSP560 to its family of ZSP licensable digital signal processor (DSP) cores.
LSI Logic has added the ZSP410, ZSP520 and ZSP560 to its family of ZSP licensable digital signal processor (DSP) cores. Featuring cached memory, the new cores provide designers greater flexibility in choosing how to distribute instructions and data between on-chip and external memory, enabling them to implement more robust ASICs and system-on-chip (SoC) designs. For applications such as IP phones, ATA modules, portable media players and 2/2.5/3G handsets, large programs can be managed with greater efficiency by storing most of the program code and data off-chip providing additional benefit in the form of chip cost savings.

Compatible with LSI ZSP400, ZSP500 and ZSP540 cores, the new ZSP cores are also supported by a broad selection of applications software for voice, video and audio applications, making them ideal for the networking, imaging and audio markets.

Voice software tailored for the cores includes all of the popular G.7XX codecs, as well as algorithms for functions such as echo cancellation, tone detection and caller ID generation.

Multiple audio and video standards are supported as well, such as H.264, MP3, AACPlus, WMA and AC3.

‘The LSI ZSP cores are recognised and proven embedded DSP technology for telephony, audio, video and wireless applications, as well as emerging markets such as voice over Wi-Fi and 3G’, said Prasad Kalluri, Senior Director, DSP Product Division, LSI Logic.

‘Our new cores expand our system-level solutions by providing a flexible memory architecture that enables designers to create innovative products while managing the cost, performance and power consumption trade-offs that are critical for today’s designs’.

The ZSP410 core is available immediately.

The ZSP520 core and ZSP560 core availability is currently limited to strategic engagements, with general availability in August.

All cores are offered as synthesisable IP blocks.

The cores are also supported by an extensive array of third-party software development and hardware development products and capabilities thru the ZSP Solution Partner Programme.

ARC Video is a complete preverified IP subsystem that incorporates H.264, VC-1, MPEG-4, MPEG-2 decoders and industry standard imaging codecs.
ARC International has announced the general availability of the next in its family of multimedia subsystems for embedded system-on-chip (SoC) design. ARC Video is a complete preverified solution that incorporates H.264, VC-1, MPEG-4, MPEG-2 decoders and industry standard imaging codecs. It is highly efficient for low power applications, and processes any of these decoders at less than 44mW for D1 resolutions.

Early adopter customers already have licensed the ARC Video Subsystem and are designing it into a range of devices targeting multimedia intensive, portable applications.

‘Multimedia is the human perception of DSP and graphics functionality related to sound and vision’, said Will Strauss, founder and President of Forward Concepts.

‘Critical to designing solutions for the multimedia market are support tools and very low power consumption’.

‘ARC’s Video Subsystem provides both with the benefits of SIMD technology’.

‘It is an impressive offering for the white hot video market’.

‘Portable device manufacturers are increasingly required to integrate high quality multi-format video and image processing into their devices’.

‘The ARC Video Subsystem arms developers with a highly optimised multistandard video solution enabling them to overcome the challenges of developing differentiated multimedia intensive devices without compromising die sise, power consumption or video/image quality’, asserted Greg Fawson, President of S2 Data Corporation.

According to Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the demand for H.264 chips in portable solutions could exceed $1 billion in 2006.

‘H.264, with its higher efficiencies and lower bandwidth demands, will be deployed on a range of mobile devices’.

‘Applications include next-generation phones to game machines, DVD players and recorders, and TV delivery systems such as cable, satellite and terrestrial’, said Dr Peddie, Principal at JPR.

The ARC Video Subsystem complements the ARC Sound Subsystem, which was introduced a year ago and has been licensed by a wide range of companies throughout the semiconductor industry.

ARC International’s Media Subsystem roadmap will enable SoC designers to include audio-, imaging- and video-intensive capabilities in their chips.

It will offer configurable solutions for video encoding, high definition video decode and advanced audio.

Each ARC Media Subsystem is a complete product and includes a configurable ARC core, SIMD accelerator, DMA engine, fully integrated hardware, software and development tools.

All will operate with any ARC or non-ARC host processor.

‘By providing a preverified, packaged subsystem ARC is solving a greater portion of customers’ design challenges’, said Derek Meyer, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at ARC International.

‘For the first time, SoC developers can easily add video decode capability into their chip and get to market quickly with little additional design effort’.

‘Instead of just licensing technology, ARC is leading the way towards licensing solutions’.

The ARC Video Subsystem is based on an ARC 700 family core that is coupled with the company’s award winning single instruction multiple data (SIMD) accelerator, which was specifically designed for video and audio processing.

A media-centric DMA engine incorporated in the ARC Video Subsystem is highly tuned to efficiently handle multimedia packet transfers.

Supported video decoders include H.264, VC-1, MPEG-4 and MPEG-2.

Supported imaging codecs include JPEG, MJPEG, GIF, PNG and TIFF.

The ARC Video Subsystem is programmable, enabling the customer to include additional codecs or algorithms.

Because it’s based on an ARC 700 family core, the subsystem can run at up to 533MHz in a 0.13um process, and developers can use the same software development tools that support a 700-class processor.

The ARC SIMD accelerator in the Video Subsystem was developed to exploit data parallelism that is abundant in media applications.

A single instruction can compute up to eight separate 16bit video pixels in parallel through the use of a 128bit wide data path.

ARC’s SIMD accelerator uses in excess of 100 new vector instructions that were specifically selected to accelerate algorithms commonly used in video and imaging applications, such as discrete cosine transforms and filters.

It is directly coupled with the configurable 700 family core in the subsystem, and is more efficient than using a fixed core with a bus-connected hardwired coprocessor.

The ARC Video Subsystem is available now for licensing.

NEC Electronics has licensed the ARM1176JZF-S processor, CoreSight technology and the PrimeCell Level-2 cache controller for integration into advanced mobile devices.
NEC Electronics, a global leader in system LSI solutions, is the latest ARM partner to license the ARM1176JZF-S processor, CoreSight technology and the PrimeCell Level-2 cache controller for integration into advanced mobile devices. The licensing agreement will enable NEC Electronics to strengthen audio security features for its mobile devices, as well as deliver a system LSI for high-end mobile phones, such as TV phones, requiring video processing capabilities. Moreover, NEC Electronics will be able to develop SoC without encountering bus bottlenecks as the ARM1176JZF-S processor and Level-2 cache controller are compliant with ARM amba 3 AXI technology.

The ARM1176JZF-S processor is optimised for 3D graphics through its integrated, floating-point processor, which enables the running of smooth, graphically-rich applications on mobile devices.

The processor supports ARM Intelligent Energy Manager (IEM) technology which, when used with the company’s Artisan low-power library, can reduce processor energy consumption by up to 60%.

This enables the ARM1176JZF-S processor to run rich and demanding applications without latency or battery life penalties.

‘In applications for mobile devices, LSI solutions with low power consumption enabling longer air time are absolutely critical’, said Masakazu Yamashina, General Manager, Mobile Systems Division, Third Systems Operations Unit, NEC Electronics.

‘The ARM1176JZF-S processor is ideal for users in search of a processor that delivers low power consumption and enables easy development of audio security functionality’.

‘By licensing this technology, we will be able to deliver a solution to mobile handset manufacturers who are looking to deliver products offering these features’.

‘The growing demands of consumers, coupled with the continual advancement of mobile applications, has led global leaders like NEC Electronics to seek solutions capable of delivering rich and dynamic performance at low power’, said Takafumi Nishijima, President, ARM Japan.

‘The ARM1176JZF-S processor, which is proving increasingly popular with the wireless community, delivers the power needed to run tomorrow’s applications, while incorporating intuitive peripherals for effective power management and debug’.

‘This license agreement demonstrates that next-generation ARM technologies continue to proliferate in the market’.

Using ARM Jazelle technology, the ARM1176JZF-S processor is optimised for efficient embedded Java execution - essential when running mobile applications.

In addition, the ARM PrimeCell Level-2 cache controller solution incorporates Trustzone technology, delivering a portable security solution compatible with different operating systems - the ideal platform for mobile devices such as smartphones.

Furthermore, CoreSight technology, which provides a complete debug and trace solution for system-on-chip (SoC) platforms, will enable NEC Electronics to accelerate the time to market of complex SoC designs.

The ARM1176JZF-S processor is compatible with the RealView Developer Suite solution, a member of the RealView Develop family of tools, which reduces the time to market for embedded electronics designers.