eASIC ARM926EJ Processor

eASIC Corporation, a provider of Structured ASIC devices and Configurable Logic IP, announced the immediate availability of an ARM926EJ processor, offered in eASIC's Nextreme 90nm product family. Partnership between ARM and eASIC will enable a broad range of users to have access, to a 32-bit CPU core on a configurable fabric, while meeting the power, price and performance requirements of their Structured ASIC. FPGA, ASIC and SoC developers can benefit from a low-cost, fast-turnaround design with no-minimum order quantity.

Ronnie Vasishta, CEO of eASIC Corporation said:

eASIC is building a wide and deep IP portfolio to offer its customers the low-cost, flexibility and time-to-market advantages of design-reuse, and the ARM926EJ processor is a major milestone in this roadmap…

Mark Brass, Vice President Operations, Physical IP said:

eASIC's Structured ASIC product enables the ARM926EJ processor to be made available in a configurable fabric for mass usage…

Nextreme Product Family
The 90nm Nextreme devices offer a powerful combination of fast turnaround prototypes to quickly verify designs together with low-cost production devices for high-volume applications. Prototypes can be manufactured as fast as 3 weeks, using mask-less Direct-write eBeam and there is no mask charge and no minimum order quantity. The Nextreme features include system performance of up to 350MHz, densities ranging from 350K gates to 5 Million ASIC gates and up to 790 user I/Os.

The ARM926EJ Processor
The ARM926EJ processor features a Jazelle(R) technology-enhanced 32-bit RISC CPU, flexible size instruction and data caches, tightly coupled memory (TCM) interfaces, memory management unit (MMU). It also provides separate instruction and data AMBA(R) AHBTM interfaces particularly suitable for Multi-layer AHB-based systems. The ARM926EJ processor implements the ARMv5TEJ instruction set and includes an enhanced 16 x 32-bit multiplier, capable of single cycle MAC operations. This ARMv5TEJ instruction set includes 16-bit fixed point DSP instructions to enhance performance of many signal processing algorithms and applications as well as supporting Thumb(R) and Java byte code execution.

Availability
The 90nm Nextreme family with the embedded ARM926EJ processor is available.

Source: eASIC