Feuerwizard
April 26th, 2004, 09:56 am
A californian fabless firm claimed that it has introduced a family of software configurable processors which can be optimised using C/C++ code, embedded directly in the semiconductors.
Stretch said its S5000 software configurable chips combine the advantages of software for general purpose processors and DSPs.
The programmable logic is embedded inside the microprocessor, and Stretch claims that is a first.
The chips us the Stretch S5 engine which uses the Tenselica Xtensa RISC processor.
The firm claims that a singe S5000 can replace a bank of DSPs or general purpose processors.
These semiconductors are aimed at the medical, instrumentation, military and networking applications. For example, the S5610 includes four 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports, includes 64-bits of DDR400 SDRAM, and costs $1000 when it's generally available in July.
The S5500 is aimed at video, medical, office and profressional video - it costs $70 and will be available in September.
ANd the S5400, said Stretch has one single Ethernet port, DDR 333 SDRAM and will cost $35 in quantity when it's released at the end of the year.
The chips come with development tools which have a graphical interface, include a Stretch C compiler, and MontaVIsta Linux for embedded Linux systems. A one user licence for the chip development platform costs $900.
Stretch said its S5000 software configurable chips combine the advantages of software for general purpose processors and DSPs.
The programmable logic is embedded inside the microprocessor, and Stretch claims that is a first.
The chips us the Stretch S5 engine which uses the Tenselica Xtensa RISC processor.
The firm claims that a singe S5000 can replace a bank of DSPs or general purpose processors.
These semiconductors are aimed at the medical, instrumentation, military and networking applications. For example, the S5610 includes four 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports, includes 64-bits of DDR400 SDRAM, and costs $1000 when it's generally available in July.
The S5500 is aimed at video, medical, office and profressional video - it costs $70 and will be available in September.
ANd the S5400, said Stretch has one single Ethernet port, DDR 333 SDRAM and will cost $35 in quantity when it's released at the end of the year.
The chips come with development tools which have a graphical interface, include a Stretch C compiler, and MontaVIsta Linux for embedded Linux systems. A one user licence for the chip development platform costs $900.