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Handheld PC Companions
Remote Access Servers
Digital Cellular Smart Telephones
Desktop Screen Telephony
Embedded Controls
Internet Appliances
Handheld PC Companions
Applications that fall into this area include handheld vertical applications. These emerging applications require ever
higher CPU performance, complemented by low power dissipation and price.
StrongARM's SA-1100 offers up to 270 MIPS at well under one Watt. The SA1100 can run application software such as "soft modem" reducing the need
for additional hardware expense. For customers concerned with time-to-market, StrongARM technology can get your product to market quicker than the competition by offering
multiple operating systems, applications, tools, and drivers, as well as
evaluation boards and reference designs.
Remote Access Servers
A Remote Access Server (RAS) device allows users to remotely access
their information on the central computers that reside at central
offices or at Internet Service Providers (ISP) sites. Each RAS device
is equipped with a number of modems. As the demand for remote access
increases, the RAS manufacturers need to increase the density of modems
in the RAS box.
The solutions of the RAS device in the market now are either hardware-
or software-based. Most RAS manufacturers now use the hardware
solution, called "Controllerless" approach - implementing all the DSP
datapump on the hardware chipsets and running controller functions on a
microcontroller/microprocessor.
Intel is participating in this Controllerless arena with the SA-110
and SA-1100 - the low-cost, low-power, but high performance processors.
These two processors are used as microprocessors running controller
software. Because of the its high performance, each processor can
control more than 24 hardware datapumps simultaneously. Running
multi-instance controller software on a single process helps
manufacturers reduce costs, power consumption, and form factor.
In addition, the RAS manufacturers benefit from well-established tools
chain and OS support for StrongARM microprocessors. The menu-driven ARM
tools
offer them a user-friendly development environment, allowing them to
reduce the development time. VxWork, a widely used OS among the RAS
manufacturers, runs on both the SA-110 and the SA-1100.
Digital Cellular Smart Telephones
This market segment has experienced amazing growth over the past 10 years. Cellular
phone use has moved from government, to business, to the consumer. Applications include 'smart' digital cell phones and cellular web browsers. Requirements include a processor with low
power consumption and high integration, which the SA-1100 offers. The
SA-1100 also is capable of running advanced software, which in turn provides
more flexibility in the handset solution. And because SA-1100 is based on
ARM™* architecture, it shares a familiar instruction set and tool chain to any
cell phone company currently using ARM™* processors.
Desktop Screen Telephony
Screenphones have evolved over the past 10 years from simple caller ID
phones to complex systems offering email, web browsing, and video
conferencing. The complexity of the screenphone, coupled with the growth of
the telecommunications infrastructure and Internet Service Providers
(ISPs), has created a need for high performance, low-cost microprocessors
like StrongARM.
The features of the StrongARM microprocessors that are the driving force behind our success with screenphone customers include performance, price-performance and integration. The SA-1100 includes integrated features like an LCD controller, PCMCIA controller, IrDA controller, memory controller, glueless codec
interface, USB slave, UARTs, and extra GPIO ports.
Designers can select from a wide variety of development tools. Intel
provides a development board and debugger for all StrongARM microprocessors.
Embedded Controls
The embedded designer now has a new choice for
high performance applications. If you are designing RAID controllers, Intelligent adapter cards (with or without I2O), switches, routers, printers, scanners, fax
machines or industrial controllers, consider StrongARM products!
StrongARM technology, with its unbeatable combination of price,
performance, power consumption and wide range of Real Time operating systems
from top RTOS vendors, gives you the best solution for your embedded
applications. Be sure to take advantage of existing robust development tools including
evaluation boards, simulation models, compilers, assemblers, debuggers and more!
The StrongARM family of microprocessors provides
record-breaking performance in a low-cost, low-power chip. For I20 applications that take advantage of PCI high bandwidth, plug and play configuration, use the StrongARM
21285 Core Logic companion chip. Designing with SA-110 and the 21285 is easy
and fast, reducing your time to market.
Internet Appliances
StrongARM microprocessors are an attractive choice for designers of network computers, windows terminals, web
phones, digital set top boxes, web DVD players, web box appliances, point of sale
terminals, cable modems, and embedded Internet TV.
System manufacturers benefit from total solution support for StrongARM microprocessors including system reference design, software and tools support.
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