FROM
THE EDITOR
This week, MIPS announced they are entering the highly-competitive 32-bit microcontroller market. An IP company entering a semiconductor market makes us squint and fuzz or eyes a little, but we get it now. It will be a little while before you can go out and buy an off-the-shelf MIPS-powered MCU, but if you’re designing one of those, or if an MCU is part of your next system-on-chip design, you’re already ready to go. Our latest feature has the details.
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MIPS Mulls Microcontrollers
New 32-bit MCU Line
The processor IP market isn’t just about processors anymore. A number of companies make outstanding processor core IP, but getting design teams to engineer those into products requires a lot more than a snappy Dhrystone number. Product developers want to make sure that their designs are backed up by a rich portfolio of development tools, operating system and middleware support, and compatible peripheral IP.
MIPS sells some of the fastest, lowest power, most widely used processor cores on the market. They have a strong market share in devices like set-top boxes and consumer electronics. MIPS has also always had a robust ecosystem with peripheral IP, hardware and software development tools, and a thriving community of developers and third-party suppliers. Recently, they took that offering even farther with their acquisition of Chipidea – an analog IP company with a broad offering of popular analog and mixed-signal blocks.
Now, the company is putting all that stuff to work and jumping into the highly-competitive 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) market. They took all that analog and digital IP and stitched it into something that is in big demand – microcontrollers aimed at automotive, industrial control, and other applications making the move to 32-bit MCUs. The company brings all the building blocks you need for the “make your own MCU” kit for your next system-on-chip design, and also everything we presume would be needed by many of the semiconductor companies that make broad lines of MCUs to add a MIPS-powered family to their product offerings. [more]
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