200 MHz ARM Core From LSI Logic

The first thing you see on ARM's homepage is a tagline that reads "Chances are that you have just used an ARM Powered product within the last hour, minute or second," and they may just be right. ARM is certainly one of the more successful purveyors of silicon IP and boasts that its chip designs are used in everything from industrial and automotive products to digital imaging and consumer electronics. Nope, I don't have any stock in the company, but I find it pretty cool that certain types of silicon (especially SoC designs) can be flexible enough to get stuffed into such a broad range of products. LSI Logic's latest achievement based on one of ARM's cores is getting the ARM946E-S to run at 200 MHz. LSI Logic's implementation includes 16K Byte instruction, 16K Byte data caches, and configurable tightly coupled memories (TCMs). LSI probably knows more than some folks about these cores since it was one of ARM's lead partners in the development of the ARM9E-S family, the ARM946E-S core, and the ARM966E-S core. It's also a lead partner on the recently announced ARM926EJ-S core with the ARM Jazelle Java technology-enabled core.