Select the ARM processor for 3G Renesas mobile phone and consumer products

Get the ARM1136JF-S processor through authorized Renesas technology recently, will be used for the future advanced mobile phone design; also through authorized ARM946E-S processor will be used for the special integrated circuit design for consumer products.

Mobile phone consumer products and equipment market continued rapid development, the OEM manufacturers are facing more and more demand has rich function equipment development and production cost with faster speed and lower. In order to help OEM customers to meet the needs of consumers for the rich functionality of the device, more and more companies are turning to the ARM architecture to speed up their development to provide a proven technical basis. Market research firm Gartner said that compared with 2003, in 2004 the global semiconductor IP revenue grew by 21%. Gartner also pointed out that the microprocessor constitutes the largest part of the semiconductor IP market, and ARM in this market, the largest share of 25%. ARM President Takafumi Nishijima Mr. KK said: "the development of devices with increasing performance is a serious technical challenge for consumer electronics designers. Through this licensing agreement, we cooperate with Renesas technology and a solid step forward, provided has been verified by ARM technology to them, so that Renesas technology to faster speed and lower cost to meet changing consumer products market of new mobile phone and ASIC design requirements."

According to the introduction, ARM946E-S comprehensive macro is suitable for embedded applications many. The property includes a combination of a flexible instruction set and data buffer memory, instruction and data memory (Tightly Coupled tightly coupled Memory, TCM interface), a protection unit, and a AMBA inline AHB interface adaptation. In addition to these technologies, the ARM1136JF-S processor has media extensions, ARM Jazelle acceleration techniques, and ARM Thumb code compression techniques.

Renesas technology will be used for the ARM946E-S processor core part of its consumer products and equipment for the design of ASIC ARM1136JF-S processor for 3G mobile phone application processor design.