The test chip is used for development systems and to sample current
strategic customer engagements.
Texas Instruments has announced the availability of an ARM7TDMI (Thumb) test-chip silicon.
The test chip is used for development systems and to sample current
strategic customer engagements.
This core is the foundation of TI's TMS470-based 32-bit embedded RISC family of microcontrollers.
The new device offers 32-bit performance with low-cost and ultra low-power consumption. It is the first ARM core silicon that executes the two instruction sets: a 16-bit instruction set (called Thumb) for high code density and a 32-bit instruction set for maximum throughput. This advanced architecture also provides a full 32-bit environment (32-bit wide registers and address space) while executing 16-bit instructions.
The TMS470 is well-suited for communications, consumer, industrial and computer peripherals applications.
An Evaluation Board for the architecture is currently under development and will be available for delivery to the general market in 2Q96.
The first general market TMS470 embedded devices will sample in 4Q96.
Two tool kits for the TMS470 are supported by TI: the TMDS470 Tool Chain developed by TI and the Toolkit 200, which is licensed by TI from ARM Ltd. Both systems operate on PCs and workstations.
February 1996, vol. 13, no. 1
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