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To: Mats Ericsson who wrote (454)	3/6/2000 5:56:00 PM
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ARM cores to support industrial controller, speech recognition applications Semiconductor Business News (03/06/00, 01:19:08 PM EDT) CAMBRIDGE, England -- ARM Ltd. here is participating in two ventures to extend the application of ARM processor cores in automotive and industrial applications. The British company is collaborating with Germany's Robert Bosch GmbH to develop a Controller Area Network (CAN) microcontroller platform for system-on-chip solutions that will include an ARM microprocessor core. ARM is also working to implement voice recognition technology from Japan's Asahi Chemical Industry Co. Ltd. with ARM-powered processors. The new synthesizable C_CAN module, which is based on the Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) specification, can be integrated as a stand-alone device or as part of an ASIC. "The CAN macrocell enables the use of ARM core-based chips for applications including dashboard and vehicle body, infotainment features, safety and powertrain solutions," said Wolfgang Kattermann, business development manager at ARM. CAN is a high-integrity serial data communications bus for real-time applications. Originally developed by the Bosch IC Design Center in Reutlingen, Germany, for use in cars, the protocol is now being used in a variety of domestic appliances, medical engineering and industrial control applications. The synthesizable C_CAN module is intended to speed implementation, further reducing development costs for system designers. Tokyo-based Asahi's modular technology, originally developed for automotive applications, delivers both speaker-independent (fixed) and speaker-dependent (user-specific) word recognition capability. Asahi's product is designed to give high recognition rates in adverse or noisy environments such as headset microphones or speakerphones. "The ARM architecture lends itself very well to sophisticated, emerging applications such as voicerecognition, which require fast processing speeds and low power consumption," said Makoto Shozakai, chief researcher for Asahi Central Research Laboratories. "Our decision to work with ARM was also based on the processor's proven interoperability, and because ARM is very active in all the target application areas for our voice recognition software technology." ARM incorporated specific code optimizations that enable the efficient implementation of Asahi's voice recognition technology for ARM core-based processors. An ARM7TDMI core operating at 20 MHz with a typical mobile phone memory configuration can recognize up to 100 words in real-time name dialing. This -- combined with the low-power, high-performance ARM processor core -- would suit a wide-range of automotive, consumer entertainment, telephony, and wireless applications, according to Dave Walsh, applications software business unit manager at ARM.