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The intersection of kindness and semiconductor Pu (NXP Semiconductors, the semi-conductive company independently established by Philip) intelligently Announce it will get the newest ARM as the first? ARM cooperative partner that CortexTM-M0 processor authorized. Cortex-M0 processor is ARM [LSE: ARM) ; (Nasdaq: ARMH) ]The size that introduces is minimum, the power consumption is lowest, most high processor of efficiency. Kindness Pu plan to apply this processor to various application intelligently, compact size, high efficiency and high performance make it especially suitable for the power management role in SoC, ASSP and independent microcontroller. Potential application includes: Battery-opwered consumer-elcetronics devices, advanced instrument, illumination, intellectual power and electric machine control.

Kindness semi-conductive microcontroller department's executive vice president and concurrently general manager Geoff Lees Pu show intelligently: "The intersection of mandate and the intersection of agreement and kindness of making this Pu continue holding the lead at the market of microcontroller intelligently, and guarantee the continuity based on ARM technical processor, in order to meet diversified characteristic, power consumption and price demand. Cortex-M0 processor is one grade of solutions of new rudimentary, adopt minimum Thumb? Compatible instruction set, and offer the low-cost sector standard developing instrument, it is apt to use. "

The situation in 2007 shows, semi-conductive intellectual property right (IP) The industry remains one of the most beautiful industries in the electronic market. The semi-conductive IP business receipt growth rate was higher than the sales amount of the component last year, reached the highest record level close to 1,500 million dollars.

High value IP, no matter own or different to make, is considered as " star IP " while classifying in early days sometimes . This kind of IP is in the leading position, among them processor and interface IP account for more than 60% of the overall market. Three major IP suppliers - -ARM Ltd., MIPS Technologies and Synopsys, either with the processor or as the main fact with the interface IP, three of theirs nearly account for half of the overall markets.

Employed the processor IP to be the fastest-rising field, the business receipt nearly rose by 25% compared with 2006 in 2007. The leading firm in this field, such as Imagination Technologies and Tensilica, the products offered all contain a large amount of integrated application know-how, make other companies impossible and duplicate this kind of ability, even can duplicate and lose more than gain economically. As the increasingly many system begins to be based on industry's standard, iSuppli Company predicts the growth rate of this field will continue lying in the first of all IP fields, up to the compound annual growth in 2012 (CAGR) Be up to 18.6%.

Staple commodities IP, do not succeed very much in 2007 such as standard cell library and memory compiler, though still behave well according to absolute business receipt. According to defining, the value of these IP is lower, because their function is not " rocket science and technology "s ,Other project groups can duplicate easily.

It is the physical storehouse to increase the slowest field, compound only 1.5% of annual growth. This field faces the treble challenge: First of all, design the quantity to generally drop newly; Secondly, the storehouse coming from inside and developing (such as accumulate the electric storehouse in the platform) Compete aggravate; Third, different in the future to make technological overall quantity to reduce. If various manufacture alliances (such as IBM, alliance licensed among semiconductor and Samsung) Launch on schedule, to will not need so many different cell libraries and analog module.

The memory is very interesting. Module and function of standard memory are staple commoditieses, the growth rate is obviously relatively slow, similar to situation of the physical storehouse. However, the appearances of new memory such as the non-volatile memory, have offsetted the above-mentioned situation to a certain extent. In about the following five years, new memory technology should be able to get the fast acceptance of the market.

But in general, iSuppli predicts the growth rate of IP market will exceed the overall semi-conductive market easily, because at present and in the future the complicated design not only needs to use more IP (polykaryon ASSP and ASIC will have already become very general) day by day ,And need to employ IP of higher-level, higher cost such as processor even intact subsystem. So, IP market was expected to continue increasing at the speed of two figures 2012 years ago, over 2,500 million dollars by 2012. To chip, the growth rates of two figures are more and more rare.

Fig. 1 shows to the prediction of the semi-conductive IP market of 2006-2012 year as iSuppli Company.

Intel (Intel) Company, as leading the intersection of chip and manufacturer, devoted to, update work and life style of people through technology and products that innovate. It is processor and relevant products of PC field that it is the most deep that Intel leaves a impression on people, but it is it in successful experience for more than 30 years of embedded market that it is often easy to be ignore.

Intel's information technology summit of last spring (IDF) Go, Intel has reviewed the brilliant course of its innovative development. For commemorate in embedded to calculate that market pass by 30 year, Intel put out have the intersection of Radix Chrysanthemi and the intersection of life and four the intersection of kernel and Intel that cycle support to better (Xeon) The series of the processor 5300, this is first four kernel processor products in embedded market, and have Intel's virtual technology and I/O speed technology. In spring of this year, Intel Corporation claims to introduce the brand-new processor (have 7 -year long life cycle to support) facing embedded market , chip set and one grade of servers of telecommunication. The processor products, all on the basis of the revolutionary high k metal gate electrode transistor technology of Intel Corporation, adopt advanced the intersection of 45 and the intersection of process for preparing and craft, concrete product include four kernel from Intel to strong the intersection of 5400 processor and series and binuclear Intel to strong the intersection of processor 5200 and series. In the embedded system conference ( Embedded System Conference, Silicon Valley 2008) in San Jose of U.S.A. a few days ago Go, the cooperative partners of Intel and its embedded field put out a series of product together, continue injecting new vigor into constant expansion of the embedded market.

E8400: The life cycle of seven years supports

Intel Corporation announces at the conference of this embedded system, 45 nanometers of Intel cool Rui 2 binuclear processors E8400 can offer 7 -year long life cycle for embedded application to support. This processor still supports Intel to carry out technology (Trusted Execution Technology, TXT) credibly at the same time ,In order to help the customer to dispose the safe embedded solution.

Intel cool Rui 2 Binuclear dealing with device E8400

2 binuclear processors E8400 of Intel cool Rui, because of Intel's high - k metal gate electrode transistor technology, and adopt craft of 45 nanometers led to make, the density of the transistor-resistor logic is improved by one time, the capacity of cache is increased to 6MB ' It is the triple of 2 binuclear processors E6400 of Intel cool Rui of former generation) ,The characteristic is promoted notably. Intel E8400 puts out to the embedded customer formally at present, a thousand pieces of unit price are 183 dollars.

Low power consumption: Key of embedded system design

Intel insults and moves(Atom) The processor, because of the brand-new little framework that is designed for and the small-scale, apparatus of low power consumption specially, 2 binuclear processor instruction sets of Intel cool Rui familiar withed while using standard PC and Internet of compatible consumer at the same time. This design still supports multithread in order to realize the good characteristic and ability to respond of improving the system.

It is " Menlow " to research and develop coaxialities before this Intel Centrino insult to last processor technology,it is insult to last processor not to last first Intel. This kind of processor is a processor minimum in size at present of Intel, it is the most quick products of speed in processor under 3W of power consumption too, power consumption range of its thermal design (TDP) Among 0.65W 2.4W, and TDP of the present typical notebook computer processor is 35W, the average power consumption range is 160mW 220mW, the power consumption range while leaving unused is 80mW 100 mW. The ultra portable products Division products engineer Shen Tong of Intel Corporation shows, the innovative scheme of Intel has integrated over 47 million transistor-resistor logics in one is smaller than 25 square millimeters of silicon dices, while reducing power consumption and physical dimension by a wide margin, have kept remarkable characteristic and compatibility.

Pay close attention to the systematic safety

Besides power consumption, the systematic safety is the respect that Intel has been paying close attention all the time too. Enterprises face various malicious attacks that direct against the computer at present, the ones that put out before Intel are rich and sharp (vPro) The platform has been strengthened from safe function, have offered built-in specialized management and safe ability for the system. It can support, scan computer continuously and isolate the network in time computer that infect, thus repair it long-rangely and network again; In addition but the safe agency's state of verification, promote the distribution efficiency of the safe software notably. The characteristic based on hardware is combined with existing software application, can bring more reliable solution, far exceed the ability based on safety of the software. Adopt the prospective safety measure, utilize safety based on hardware to analyze the environment, protect the cyber attack constantly, prevent the data from being lost effectively. Because these functions are built-in above the chip, can continue working while breaking down in operating system. The strong characteristic promotes the compatible speeds of software and hardware by 95% at one blow, has reduced the probability that the computer is attacked by the new threat by a wide margin.

Benefit from the energy-conserving efficient characteristic of this technology, it has realized the efficient safe protection function in cool Rui 2's serial processors too. Have been used for series of products such as cool Rui 2 E8400 of embedded application,etc. joining Intel TXT (Trusted Execution Technology) Technology, in order to increase the safe protection function based on hardware systematically. In order to prevent unauthorized invasion, it has been joined 128bit TLS encrypts and the rigorous authentication mechanism stands; In addition, the trust chain (Chain of Trust) on the basis of the hardware Technology can allow IT controller to control (Virtual Machine Monitor, VMM) through the fictitious machine The function knows the systematic state. Intel TXT can guarantee VMM function possesses stronger attack-proof ability, can find the traditional software information security solution is unable to detect the attack that is measured at present. Protect and isolate the memory appointed through this kind of hardware, the system can protect every data separated under the virtual environment, avoid other inner software of separating the environment and carry on unauthorized access.

Insult and move (Atom) on the basis of Intel Embedded computer module