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To find out more about ARC, our products and technology, you can view or download datasheets, white papers, press releases and other documents.

You can also download a demo version of the ARChitect processor configurator.

For additional information, please contact your local sales representative, or email info@arc.com.

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® 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.

Reference Manuals

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.

Sound-to-Silicon Solutions

Media Phone Solution: ARC’s Media Phone solution provides SoC companies and OEMs with a cost effective platform for quickly entering and gaining share of the fast-growing Media Phone market. It includes ARC’s award-winning software and hardware IP, optimized codecs, and development tools.

Mobile DTV Solution: ARC’s Mobile DTV solution lets OEMs add digital TV functionality to portable devices and provide consumers with a significantly enhanced multimedia experience at lower development cost. SoC companies obtain a fully integrated solution comprising of award-winning IP that can be quickly integrated into an SoC and brought to market quickly.

Digital TV/Home Theater Audio Solution: The ARC® Digital TV and Home Theater solution provides an integrated audio offering to OEM and semiconductor companies, enabling a compelling home entertainment center experience using lower cost and/or fewer audio components.

PC/Laptop Audio Solution: ARC's PC/Laptop audio solution is fully integrated and delivers a complete audio development and IP offering to OEMs.

Portable Media Device Audio Solution: The ARC® Portable Media Device (PMD) solution provides an integrated audio offering to OEM and semiconductor companies.

ARC® Sonic Focus™ Products: ARC’s Sonic Focus™ products are industry leading audio enrichment software that restore clarity, warmth, detail, and realism to digitally compressed audio in music, movies, and games.

ARC® Virtual Bass™ Technology: Virtual Bass™ audio enrichment sofware enables electronic companies to be more competitive and lower manufacturing costs while providing amore compellingmultimedia experience to consumers using a wide range of home entertainment and portable devices.

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.

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.