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MIPS Technologies enters 32-bit MCU market
MIPS Technologies Incorporated has announced its entry into the performance-driven 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) market.
MIPS Technologies are a provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, networking, personal entertainment, communications and business applications.
As the industry transitions from 8- and 16-bit to 32-bit microcontrollers, designers require not only increased functionality, but also a wide array of peripherals, including high performance IP such as USB and audio codecs. Growing demand for analog functions in MCUs represents a significant opportunity for an IP and Chipidea analog IP and peripherals, MIPS Technologies can now offer a complete system solution and one-stop-shop for microcontroller designs.
The MIPS Technologies family of cores enables seamless migration from 8- to 16-bit to 32-bit MCUs, with hardware and software development tools to mitigate the development task and reduce time-to-market. Customers can leverage MIPS Technologies’ general purpose processor cores from the low-power MIPS32 M4K core, which provides 32-bit performance at an 8-bit cost-up to the high-performance MIPS32 24K family, depending on specific applications. A wide range of configurable features allows designers to optimise a core’s performance while reducing die size, power consumption and total system cost.