Sunday, January 2, 2011

PowerPC based SoCs in Embedded Designs

In one of the recent posts we talked about power management features on the PowerPC processor architecture and how that makes it suitable for the embedded systems. Comes news that AppliedMicro has released a SoC that include Power chips and is positioned for the manufacturers of next-generation multifunction
printers, enterprise control planes, consumer NAS systems, wireless access points and industrial
applications. The AppliedMicro offers the industry’s most advanced capabilities in power management, security and concurrency.


AppliedMicro has created a Scalable Lightweight Intelligent Management Processor (SLIMpro) that is able to provide power management, true Asymmetric Multi-Processing (AMP), inline packet processing, look aside hardware offloads, tamper detection and response circuitry for applications demanding low-power operation, end-to-end security and RTOS concurrency.   These features make the SLIMPro family a contender in complex peripheral device operations. Wake on LAN, USB 2.0, general purpose I?O and on RTC etc. provide the devices lot of opportunities to go to sleep and save power. Frequency gating options are also available.

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