ARM946E-S™-based Design Platform

High-performance / Low-risk SoC Design

With SoCLite based upon ARM7TDMI^®NEC has introduced as a first silicon vendor a real design platform for easy designing low-cost System-on-Chip's and customizable microcontrollers.

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ARM946E-S™ Supermacro features*:

• ARM946E-S™ core based
• Pre-verified microcontroller unit
  • Multiport Memory Controller
  • DMA controller
  • Peripherals (UART, Timer, Interrupt controller, GPIOs)
    
• 200 MHz target performance
• CB-12 / UX-4 based (0.13 µm) technology
• APB and AHB connected to the user defined logic
• Comprehensive development system

* specification subject to change w/o notice

Now, NEC is offering also a solution for the mid-to-high-end applications requiring high-performance: NEC’s ARM946E-S™ Super-Macro Design Platform.

The key part of this design platform is the ARM946E-S™Super-Macro that consists of the ARM946E-S™CPU core (running at up to 200 MHz) and an extended subsystem of peripherals that are required to setup a high-performance microcontroller, like a multi-port memory controller and an 8-channel DMA controller. The ARM946E-S™Super-Macro is pre-designed and pre-verified as a hard-macro block that can be utilized off-the-shelf for a cell-based ASIC design. Another important part of the ARM946E-S™Super-Macro Design Platform is an FPGA-based development board that allows functional in-system verification and early software development, involving the CPU core, the peripheral subsystem and the custom specific logic at the same time.

The ARM946E-S™Super-Macro Design Platform has major key advantages for high-end ASIC design: By offering an already proven macro block, NEC frees the designers from designing and verifying the complete microcontroller subsystem and thus helps lowering inherent design risks and most important saving resources, time and cost.

The ARM946E-S™Super-Macro is available for NEC’s 0.13 µm (drawn) gate length (150 nm ITRS node) advanced CB-12 cell-based ASIC technology.