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Product Brochures

ARC® 700 Core Family Brochure: The ARC 700 family of configurable cores combines a powerful 32-bit CPU and a full-featured DSP engine in a unified architecture. ARC 700 cores have the computing power to meet the needs of the most demanding SoC tasks, like graphics, media codecs and packet processing. The ARC 700-based cores are also an ideal platform for high-end embedded OSs, such as Linux.

ARC® Energy PRO Brochure: The ARC® Energy PRO family of 32-bit configurable cores provides ultra-low power consumption for SoC designers working on the most power-sensitive projects in consumer, mobile communications and medical markets, including deeply embedded real-time applications.

ARC® Sound Subsystem Brochure: ARC® Sound Subsystem is a low-cost, multi-standard audio subsystem designed for integration into systems-on-chip (SoCs). It provides a complete, turnkey solution for designers who need to quickly and cost-effectively implement audio encoding and decoding capabilities. With a power consumption up to 55% better than rival products, it is ideal for a range of media appliances including mobile phones, portable media players, camcorders, set top boxes, and DVD players.

ARC® Video 400V Subsystem Series Brochure: The ARC Video 400V Series is a family of scalable, programmable subsystem solutions for SoC designers seeking to deploy video capture and encoding and decoding functions in a wide range of media appliances. These pre-configured multimedia subsystems combine a hardware platform based on ARC’s VRaptorTM multi-core architecture, with a range of standards-compliant media codecs delivered as source code. Each AV 400V Series video subsystem is licensed and delivered as process independent IP, giving you the choice of silicon foundry partners and implementation details that best suit your design.

ARC® Video 401 Subsystem Brochure: The ARC® Video Subsystem provides a complete solution for designers of system-on-chips who need to incorporate multi-standard video and image decoding into their products. With a configurable architecture and pre-integrated media software, it is easy to deploy in any design. ARC Video Subsystem dramatically cuts costs in portable media applications: costs of development, silicon costs, and overall system costs.

Reference Manuals

ARCompact-ISA Programmer: The ARCompact Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) reference manual covers all aspects of the ARCompact ISA. It is for programmers developing for ARC-Based(tm) processors including the ARCtangent A5 processor and ARC 600 and 700 core families.

New Low Power RDM for Energy PRO Technology: A new automated low-power reference design methodology (LP-RDM) has been created by Cadence Design Systems and ARC International, and implemented in the ARChitect Processor Configurator. Using it with ARC’s new Energy PRO technology, customers can achieve up to a four-fold reduction of IP core power by capturing the low-power design intent in RTL and implementing consistently throughout the design flow to GDSII.

Product Briefs

Product briefs contain information about ARC International products and technology. All documents are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.

Configurable Cores

ARC® 600 Family: The ARC 600 family of configurable cores is designed for embedded control, computation and DSP tasks in SoCs for consumer, networking, automotive and many other markets. The core family is ideal for battery-operated and cost-sensitive products.

ARC® 605 Core: The ARC 605 processor core is an ideal solution for a wide range of embedded control and computing functions within SoCs. The core is designed for hard real-time processing, where high speed and deterministic response are required. The highly configurable ARC 605 core is smaller, lower power and provides up to twice the MHz performance of competing cores. Optionally, custom instruction extensions may be incorporated to achieve application performance levels unattainable with fixed architecture cores.

ARC® 610D Core: The ARC 610D core processor core is ideal for SoC applications which include conventional computation and signal processing algorithms. The core is designed for hard, real-time processing, where high speed and deterministic response are required.

ARC® 625D Core: The ARC 625D processor core is a full-featured, mid-range embedded core with best-in-class speed, die area and power characteristics. It is designed as a complete processor solution for SoCs targeted at consumer, networking, automotive and other cost-sensitive markets.

Core Options

ARC® XY Advanced DSP Core Option: ARC XY Advanced DSP adds the power of a true DSP engine to ARC CPU cores, enabling conventional and signal processing computation within a single unified architecture. ARC XY Advanced DSP may be applied to most of the cores within the ARC 600 and ARC 700 families.

ARC® FPX: ARC FPX Floating Point Extensions add high performance single and double precision math instructions to ARC 600 and 700 core families. ARC FPX dramatically accelerates computations where data sets have a large dynamic range and when high precision is required.

Subsystems

ARC® Sound Advanced Subsystem: The ARC Sound Advanced Subsystem combines ARC's award-winning 128-bit SIMD accelerator and DMA engine with a 700 family configurable RISC processor. This combination provides a highly tuned audio solution that efficiently processes widely used audio codecs: Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), Dolby® Digital (AC3), MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3) and Windows Media Audio (WMA).

ARC® Player Subsystem: ARC Player is a programmable subsystem that integrates a media-optimized RISC processor with full portable media player functionality. Ideally suited for price-sensitive SoCs targeting multimedia consumer devices, the ARC Player Subsystem is synthesizable for ASIC and SoC implementations, has a small footprint, and operates at very low power.

Development Tools

ARChitect® Processor Configurator: The ARChitect is a JAVA-based configuration tool that allows developers to quickly and easily customize the ARC microprocessor cores. It also lets developers integrate peripherals and other silicon intellectual property (IP).

RTOS

MQX® RTOS: The MQX RTOS is ARC's real-time operating system for deeply embedded applications. It provides real-time performance and a tiny memory footprint. The MQX RTOS is easy to configure to balance code size with performance requirements and support all of ARC's current processor families.