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Release Date March 20, 2001
picoTurbo Announces picoPACK SOC Peripherals Based on the AMBA Bus
picoPACK Offers Fast, Cost-effective Turn-key Solution for SOC Designs
IP SOC 2001, Santa Clara, CA - March 20, 2001 – picoTurbo,Inc., a premier developer of 16/32-bit RISC microprocessors designed for use with applications that require ARM® (version 4T) instructions, today announced the picoPACK platform. It contains a broad range of AMBA™(advanced microcontroller bus architecture)-based reusable peripheral IP components required for advanced SOC designs with picoTurbo microprocessor cores. The picoPACK platform provides a fully working SOC framework design based on the AMBA bus, an open bus standard from ARM, plus key synthesizable modules for typical functions required by SOC applications.
The picoPACK family of peripherals is modular and flexible, giving customers many options in the design of SOCs based on the AMBA bus. It contains memory interfaces, bus bridges to AHB (AMBA high-performance bus), APB (AMBA peripheral bus), PCI (peripheral component interface) and VCI (virtual component interface), LCD (liquid crystal display) controllers, timers and GPIO (general purpose I/O). SOC Designers can use the picoPACK platform as a stand-alone microprocessor SOC design; or develop a more complex SOC by adding other IP blocks. As picoPACK provides all of the required functionality for the basic SOC design, customers will enjoy a shorter development cycle, less design risk and reduced development and IP sourcing costs.
Bruno Kajiyama, Vice President of Marketing for picoTurbo, stated, "As designs become more complex, SOC designers are faced with the integration of different IP blocks, time-to-market pressure and verification challenges. picoPACK is our answer to those issues, helping our customers to decrease their SOC development cycle and costs. It provides customers with a turn-key solution based on industry standard buses, that can be expanded with other IP blocks. picoPACK is an excellent SOC platform for a wide variety of applications."
An added benefit of the picoPACK design platform is the easy integration of components. As a result of picoPACK's modularity, flexibility and complete package of components, SOC products developed by picoTurbo's customers will be faster to market, easier to design and lower in cost. picoPACK is available for licensing immediately.
The components of the picoPACK SOC platform are:
- AHB Arbiter & Decoder
- APB Bridge
- Flash/SRAM Memory Controller
- SDRAM Memory Controller
- Internal Memory I/F
- VCI Bridge
- PCI Bridge
- Interrupt Controller
- Timers/Watchdog
- LCD Controller I/F
- General Purpose IO
- High-level Data Link Controller
About picoTurbo
picoTurbo is a premier provider of 16/32-bit RISC microprocessor cores, designed for use with applications that require ARM® (version 4T) instructions. picoTurbo's flexible business model delivers high-performance, cost-effective, low-power microprocessor IP to SOC designers. picoTurbo is headquartered in Silicon Valley, CA, USA with an additional design center in Taiwan and distributors in the UK, Israel and Taiwan. For more information on picoTurbo, please visit the web site at <www.picoturbo.com> or call company headquarters at 408-586-8801, fax 408-586-8802 or send an email to info@picoturbo.com.
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picoTurbo, the picoTurbo logo, pT-100, pT-110, pT-110-Ax, pT-120, picoBOOST, picoPACK, DesignerNet, "Design without Limits" and "Turn-key IP" are trademarks of picoTurbo, Inc.
ARM is a registered trademark of ARM Limited. AMBA is a trademark of ARM Limited.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
picoTurbo, the picoTurbo logo, pT-100, pT-110, pT-110-Ax, pT-120, picoBOOST, picoPACK, DesignerNet, "Design without limits" and "Turn-key IP" are tradmarks of picoTurbo, Inc.
ARM is a registered trademark of ARM Limited. AMBA is a trademark of ARM Limited.
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