8051 micro Has Tremendous Staying Power, Evolves into Quad-Pipelined Soft Core

The latest avatar is a soft core and much evolved version of the 8 bit microcontroller family. The designing company the Digital Core Design has been working with the 8051 for a long time, for past 11 years! This core is a 16/32 bit version of the industry standard and much popular 80C51 and 80C251 devices. While the 80C51 was, as we all know, was a preferred 8 bit device, the 80C251 was an evolve 16 bit version. This core being offered has a 32 bit option too.

The devices you could create out of this core could be more than 50 time faster that the 80C51 and about 5 times faster than the 80C251. One feature that contributes to the speed up is the heavily pipeline processor core. What is more interesting is that it will consume much less power to get that performance. The on-chip configurable debug unit (compatible with JTAG) is interesting. The PMU or the power management unit is useful for managing the power use and optimizing the power to performance. Rest of the peripherals are predictable and compatible with what you have come to expect in the 8051 devices. The designers provide all the support needed for compiling specific devices including the VHDL and Verilog source code.

This sure is an interesting device and we plan to spend more time on the same in future posts.

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