MIPS Technologies Hits EDN Magazine's "Hot 100 Products" List
(Technology News, 19 Dec 2007 )
MIPS Technologies Inc.'s cores power 25 percent of the winning products in the Processor category of EDN Magazine's Hot 100 Products of 2007. MIPS Technologies' own high-performance MIPS32 74K processor core was recognized, along with Microchip Technology's new 32-bit PIC32 microcontroller family, based on the MIPS32 M4K core. The SP16-G160 and SP8-G80 processors from Stream Processors Inc., which rely on two MIPS32 4KEc cores, were also honored.
The annual list of EDN Magazine's Hot 100 Products is comprised of products and technologies chosen from EDN Magazine's print and web pages in 2007 that its editors believe "generated heat" in the electronics community. Twelve product categories range from analog ICs to test-and-measurement devices.
"Having our cores recognized in the Hot Products of 2007 by the highly respected editors at EDN magazine is a great validation of our technology," said Jack Browne, Vice President of Marketing for MIPS Technologies. "2007 was a notable year for MIPS, with the introduction and adoption by industry leaders of the superscalar 74K core, our entry into the 32-bit MCU market along with MCU market leader Microchip, and continued adoption of our broad range of cores by innovative licensees like SPI."
EDN Editorial Director Maury Wright stated: "Our editorial team covers new product introductions on a daily basis and we see a lot of worthy products. We look back once a year and choose the introductions that we believe will have the greatest significance to the design engineer and create the Hot 100 list."
The MIPS32 74K core is the embedded industry's first fully synthesizable 32-bit core to achieve operating frequencies greater than 1GHz in TSMC 65nm process technology. It delivers unparalleled performance and power-efficiency in the smallest area in its class. Broadcom Corp. and Infineon Technologies both licensed the core in 2007.
Microchip Technology's new PIC32 family of high-performance 32-bit microcontrollers is based on the low-power M4K core. The M4K core has a wide range of configurable features that let designers optimize the core's performance while reducing die size, power consumption and total system cost for emerging MCU applications in industrial, automotive and consumer markets.
The synthesizable 4KEc core, a member of the MIPS32 4KE family, manages select SoC and system level functions that support SPI's high-performance digital signal processor (DSP) co-processor. The 4KEc core gives SoC designers the flexibility to optimize applications for performance, size or power consumption, reducing system costs.
