MIPS Architecture Enabling Growing List of Mobile Application Processors
August 30 2004 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
MIPS Architecture Enabling Growing List of Mobile Application
Processors Sony's PlayStation(R) Portable Among the Battery-Powered
Products Leveraging the MIPS(R) Architecture to Heighten the User
Experience MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
The Sony PlayStation(R) Portable and Canon's EOS Digital Rebel
camera family are among the growing list of portable devices being
driven by MIPS-Based(TM) application processors. MIPS Technologies,
Inc. (NASDAQ:MIPS), a Silicon Valley-based company whose technology
is found in many high-growth consumer electronics products,
announced today that the industry-standard MIPS(R) microprocessor
architecture is extending its reach into the mobile applications
space. The architecture's inherent low-power and high- performance
capabilities have already made it the de facto standard in consumer
products such as digital set-top boxes, digital TVs and DVD
recorders. Growing requirements for audio, video and other digital
signal processing (DSP) tasks are increasing the performance
demands on applications processors inside many mobile products.
This trend is causing OEMs to reconsider their system and hardware
configurations - and therefore the microprocessor architecture upon
which the system relies - to maximize performance capabilities
while prolonging battery life. Below is a partial listing of
MIPS-Based mobile devices available to consumers. For more design
wins, visit the company's Web site at http://www.mips.com/. "We
chose the MIPS architecture for our digital camera processor
because the technology enables our team to design products that
maximize overall system performance while minimizing any impact to
battery life," said Coby Sella, vice president and general manager
of Zoran's mobile division. "The power savings is achieved in the
design of our COACH processor and in the system architecture we
deliver to the digital camera manufacturers. The success of the
design has been proven by Zoran's growing market share of the
overall digital camera market." "For a growing list of customers,
the MIPS architecture is the choice for a range of mobile
applications because it uses low power to deliver the right
performance at the right price point," said Russ Bell, vice
president of marketing at MIPS Technologies. "We achieve this
unique offering by leveraging standard off-the-shelf memories,
libraries and EDA flows from industry leading vendors. Moving
forward, MIPS Technologies will continue to deliver optimized
products that meet the power and performance demands of high-growth
embedded markets." Why MIPS for Mobile Application Processors The
MIPS architecture offers low power advantages that are key to SOC
designers targeting battery-powered devices. At the heart of the
MIPS architecture is a streamlined architecture that has met the
demands of generations of applications over a 20-year period. The
MIPS instruction set offers 32-element register files (not 16, as
with other architectures), which reduce the need to access embedded
cache and main memory to retrieve data. Fewer clock cycles are
needed to perform most tasks allowing the system to run at lower
frequencies. These characteristics translate into lower core and
system power consumption while operating at maximum microprocessor
performance. MIPS Technologies' customers may gain design
flexibility through access to ISA licenses, optimized hard macros
and synthesizable cores, which enable the optimization of silicon
die area and power configurations to maximize battery life.
Additionally, MIPS Technologies' line of the industry's highest
performing cores offer customers more system headroom, so future
upgrades can be implemented in software easily and quickly.
MIPS-Based Cores More Power Efficient Below is a comparison of MIPS
Technologies cores to similar products from ARM Holdings plc. The
MIPS-Based cores were developed using standard off-the- shelf
libraries and memories and without voltage scaling techniques. All
numbers were taken from public material on the companies' Web sites
as of this announcement's date, and all products are listed as
core-only configurations. MIPS32(R) 4KEc(TM) core(1) ARM 926EJ-S
core(1) Best Frequency: 233 MHz 250 MHz Best Performance: 356 DMIPS
300 DMIPS Power: 0.25 mW/MHz 0.35 mW/MHz Area: 1.7 mm(2) 2.2 mm(2)
Power Efficiency: 0.16 mW/DMIPS 0.29 mW/DMIPS MIPS32 24Kc(TM)
core(1) ARM 1136J-S core(1) Best Frequency: 400 MHz 333 MHz Best
Performance: 576 DMIPS 400 DMIPS Power: 0.58 mW/MHz 0.6 mW/MHz
Area: 2.8 mm(2) 4.5 mm(2) Power efficiency: 0.40 mW/DMIPS 0.50
mW/DMIPS Shipping MIPS-Based Mobile Devices The MIPS architecture
is gaining key design wins in a range of battery- operated devices.
OEMs shipping mobile MIPS-Based products include Canon, Casio,
Fujifilm, Fujitsu, JVC, Minolta, PENTAX, Philips, Samsung and Sony.
MIPS Technologies licensees providing innovative and low-power
MIPS-Based silicon include AMD, Broadcom, LSI Logic, NEC, Philips
Semiconductors, Sunplus, Thrane and Thrane, Toshiba and Zoran.
MIPS-Based mobile devices currently shipping or announced include:
Entertainment * Sony PlayStation Portable handheld video game *
Sony AIBO entertainment robot * Sony QRIO "dream robot" * Macsense
HomePod wireless audio player Cameras * Canon EOS 10D and Digital
Rebel digital SLR cameras * Canon Optura 300 digital video
camcorder * Fujifilm FinePix F700, S5000 and S7000 digital still
cameras * JVC GR-HD1 high-definition digital video camera * Samsung
Digimax 370 and 430 digital cameras Computing/Communications * AMX
Modero ViewPoint MVP-7500 and MVP-8400 wireless touch-screen panels
* Fujitsu TeamPad handheld computer * Itronix fex21 handheld
computer * Wireless PC tablet in use by Chinese educational
institutions (1) Worst case conditions: 1.08V, 125C, slow silicon
About MIPS Technologies MIPS Technologies, Inc. is a leading
provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for
digital consumer and business applications. The company drives the
broadest architectural alliance that is delivering 32- and 64-bit
embedded RISC solutions. The company licenses its intellectual
property to semiconductor companies, ASIC developers and system
OEMs. MIPS Technologies and its licensees offer the widest range of
robust, scalable processors in standard, custom, semi-custom and
application-specific products. The company is based in Mountain
View, Calif., and can be reached at +1 (650) 567-5000 or
http://www.mips.com/. MIPS, MIPS-Based, MIPS32, 24Kc and 4KEc are
trademarks or registered trademarks of MIPS Technologies, Inc. in
the United States and other countries. All other trademarks
referred to herein are the property of their respective owners.
DATASOURCE: MIPS Technologies, Inc. CONTACT: Lee Garvin Flanagin of
MIPS Technologies, Inc., +1-650-567-5180, or Web site:
http://www.mips.com/
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