Products and Solutions
Configurable Solutions Overview
ARC International pioneered configurable processor technology and is the market leader with over 140 customers worldwide who collectively ship more than 300 million ARC-Based™ chips annually. ARC's patented configurable subsystems and CPU/DSP cores enable SoC developers to create more competitive products. Designers can optimize their SoCs for specific applications, resulting in chips with higher application performance, smaller die area, and lower power than is possible with "fixed" architecture alternatives.
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Multimedia Subsystems |
ARC is the industry's leading supplier of configurable multimedia subsystems. Each is multi-standard, and comes with a complete set of optimized and pre-integrated audio, imaging, and video codecs as well as development tools. The latest family members are built on ARC's VRaptor architecture and incorporate ARC’s Energy PRO technology. The family covers a broad range of applications such as cell phones, image sensors, portable media players, mobile TV handsets, DVR, etc., ARC's configurable subsystems provide SoC designers with flexibility, low development risk, and fast time-to-market.
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Sonic Focus Technology |
Sonic Focus, an ARC International company, provides award winning audio post-processing software. Their technology significantly enhances the consumer multimedia experience by bringing greater clarity and realism to sound derived from digitized audio streams. Sonic Focus's technology is optimized to the industry leading ARC Sound and ARC Sound Advanced Subsystems.
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Configurable CPU/DSP Processors |
ARC provides a compatible range of configurable 32-bit processors that offer both RISC and full performance DSP capabilities in a unified architecture. They range from the world's smallest, lowest power licensable 32-bit core to a full-featured host processor that delivers over 1000 DMIPS of performance with half the die size and power of competing cores. ARC's newest cores, the Energy Pro family, take energy efficiency to a new level with advanced system-level power-management capabilities. |
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Configurable Extensions |
ARC offers optional configurable instruction extensions for all of its cores and subsystems, which provide full DSP capability and the performance of hardware floating point instructions, and realtime trace for rapid software debug. |
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Run-Time Software |
ARC and its partners provide SoC developers with state-of-the-art software that has been optimized for ARC's patented configurable technology. |
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Development Tools |
ARC's configurable subsystems and CPU/DSP cores are complemented by a complete set of professional quality development tools. They are supported by industry standard EDA RTL-to-GDS II flows, and hardware configuration and optimization is automated by the easy-to-use ARChitect™ configurator. Software developers can choose from a range of integrated tool sets, simulators, and prototyping platforms. |
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Technology Leadership |
Thanks to a rich store of patented developments, ARC’s configurable cores are genuinely unique. Our fundamental configurable processor technology can handle the most demanding SoC processing tasks, and yet is easy to use and can create optimized RTL in less than five minutes. Our revolutionary and highly configurable VRaptor architecture is powering a new generation of advanced media subsystem solutions. And our Energy PRO system-level power management concept provides best-in-class energy efficiency with small die size and low cost. |
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