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Silicon Valley- Oki Semiconductor is reaching back to its roots in Japan's telecommunications industry to produce a system-on-a-chip development platform for designs supporting the diverse communications landscape.
The microPlat-7C provides a preverified ARM7 subsystem, which, when combined with Oki's embedded-DRAM core, communication-specific interfaces, and design environment, is expected to cut design cycles in half.
More than simply combining a CPU, memory, and IP on a chip, the platform tackles hardware and software co-development, said Shusaku Sumida, vice president of integration marketing at Oki Semiconductor, Sunnyvale, Calif.
"It takes three things to make a successful system-on-a-chip design: an ASIC design flow that is competitive for multi-million- gate designs; the IP itself, with a method to distribute and share among different groups; and...