High performance MIPS32 34K core is integrated in the MSP8110 and MSP8120
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PMC-Sierra, Inc. (Nasdaq:PMCS) today announced two highly integrated Multi-Service Processors® (MSPs) targeted at high performance, cost-sensitive embedded applications. The MSP8110 and MSP8120 System-On-Chip (SoC) solutions, powered by the MIPS32 34K core, provide large 64KB caches with integrated I/O interfaces and consume less than 1.5Watts. These processors are the first additions to PMC-Sierra’s new MSP8100 family of SoCs designed to meet the performance and cost targets required to support a wide range of applications such as networked appliances, storage systems and security solutions.
Features
Both the MSP8110 and the MSP8120 support the following standard interfaces:
- Two 10/100 Mb/s Ethernet MAC interfaces supporting industry standard MII/RMII interfaces to standard Ethernet transceivers;
- A USB 2.0 controller and PHY supporting both host and device mode operation;
- A 32-bit PCI controller providing PCI 2.3 compliant operation at 33/66 MHz;
- A 166 MHz DDR I/II SDRAM controller;
- A local bus interface providing connectivity to boot ROM and Flash; and
- Up to twenty GPIO pins that can optionally be configured as UART, SPI, TDM, or TWI ports.