Spreadtrum licenses ARM7TDMI®
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SUNNYVALE, CALIF., and CAMBRIDGE, UK – Jan. 21, 2003 – Spreadtrum Communications Inc., and ARM [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor technology, today announced that Spreadtrum has licensed the ARM7TDMI® microprocessor core.
This agreement will enable Spreadtrum to provide its customers with innovative and power-efficient solutions for wireless applications such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other mobile devices.
"ARM's advanced processor technology provides a strong foundation for Spreadtrum products such as our baseband ASIC SC6600 product and other software-based solutions. It enables us to implement our innovative system architecture design," says Dr. Ping Wu, president of Spreadtrum Communications. "By utilizing the industry-leading ARM7TDMI core, we can develop high performance, small die size, low-power consumption and very low-cost total system solutions that address the needs of wireless equipment manufacturers and mobile terminal vendors. We look forward to enhancing our integrated circuit solutions for next-generation wireless terminals with ARM's core technologies."
Spreadtrum's SC6600 product is a highly integrated GSM/GPRS single baseband system containing all baseband digital signal processing, analog processing, power management, power amplifier controller and the peripheral circuitries. It is designed as a single chip solution in 0.18µm mixed-signal CMOS technology, with 180pin LFBGA package to achieve higher performance and lower system cost.
"This agreement further demonstrates the industry's acceptance of the ARM® core as a de facto standard for wireless applications," said Oliver Gunasekara, director, Wireless, ARM. "Spreadtrum's decision to integrate the ARM architecture into its leading-edge wireless communication solution will enable them to provide a low-power single chip baseband solution."
Spreadtrum is a novice and innovative total wireless solution company, not only providing baseband chipsets, but also software protocol stacks, and completed total wireless solutions for mobile devices. In addition, Spreadtrum offers a Microsoft® Windows® technology-based Software Development Platform (SDP) as well as sets of production tools to provide the maximum flexibility and fast time-to-market to customers.
The ARM7TDMI core is a very small, high-performance and power-efficient 32-bit RISC processor. It includes the 16-bit Thumb® code compression extensions, advanced Embedded-ICE® on-chip debug and support for the ARM real-time embedded trace technology with the ETM7™ macrocell. The ARM7TDMI core is an ideal solution for ASIC integration. |
