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Devices that integrate a processor core and its peripherals along with a section of programmable logic for definition of extra peripherals or specialized algorithms.

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8051-Based ASP Family with Integrated Low-Power Programmable Digital Logic

Optimized for applications requiring programmable digital peripherals, a new family of application services platforms (ASPs)—the PSoC3 architecture from CypressRead More...

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New Development Tools for PSoC 5 Programmable System-on-Chip Architecture

New development tools are becoming available for the PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip architecture from Cypress Semiconductor in the form of two new design kits and a newRead More...

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From ASIC to ASP to What’s Next? The Quest for the Ideal Embedded Device

In the process of system optimization, “all roads lead to silicon.” However, there are many roads and they take many and varied routes. Taking the road to silicon actually meansRead More...

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Intel’s “Tunnel Creek”—A New Thrust for the Atom into Embedded

What is a system-on-chip? Maybe we thought we knew, but the definition seems to be shifting and that has some interesting implications for the embedded space. Time was, an SoC wasRead More...

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28 nm FPGA Device Portfolio Addresses Continuum of Design Requirements

In these pages we have written quite a bit lately about the quest for the perfect ASIC. It is some mystical combination of programmability, hardware configurability, performance, cost,Read More...

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System on Chip: Treading the Path Between FPGA and ASIC

The application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and field programmable gate array (FPGA) evolution since the 1980s has been dramatic. As an example, the x86 processor in 1980 wasRead More...