EmbeddedCraft News Updates

MIPS Introduces New Microprocessor Cores : Aptiv cores
May-2012

MIPS is the one of the leading company which provide microprocessor cores targeting home entertainment, networking, mobile and embedded segments. Now they come up with the new microprocessor cores named Aptiv. They came up with three cores…

microAptiv interAptiv proAptiv

microAptiv
This is based on real-time embedded MIPS32® Release 3 processor core. It has microMIPS code compression instruction set architecture. By Integrating DSP and SIMD in single core this meets signal processing requirements for a wide range of microcontrollers and embedded systems used in industrial control, smart meters, automotive and wireless applications
http://www.mips.com/products/processor-cores/aptiv/microaptiv/

interAptiv
This is again based MIPS32® Release 3 processor core with the feature of Multi threading (MT) and multi core. This include two virtual processing elements (VPEs), or hardware threads, which appear as two complete processors to an SMP operating system. This core best to use in those chips which targets smart phone, gateway, powertrain, multi way redundant systems used in railways and other applications.
http://www.mips.com/products/processor-cores/aptiv/interaptiv/

proAptiv
This is high performance core based on Aptiv core family. This is available in multicore versions, upto six cores. Here MIPS introduces new core microarchitecture, a new floating point unit (FPU), and an enhanced multi-core interconnect technology. These code are ideal to use in networking devices, high end smart phones etc
http://www.mips.com/products/processor-cores/aptiv/proaptiv/

By introducing these new cores, MIPS seem to be very aggressive in the market of multicore CPUs. And want their place in smart phone market, where ARM core is more dominated. As time pass we will see how MIPS will market these new cores.

http://www.mips.com/aptiv

Imbuent PIC32MX795F512L Development Board
May-2012

Imbuent has released the new PIC32 based development board. This board is based on PIC32MX795F512 processor. This board has USB OTG, Ethernet, serial ports, RS485, two CANs. This board also has PIC KIT 3 and ICD3 connectors. These features make it suitable for Embedded Application development on PIC32.

This board is available from Imbuent.

To know more, please visit

http://imbuent.com/pic32mxboard.html#PIC32MAX