On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:55:26 +1300, Jim Granville
<no.spam@designtools.co.nz> wrote:
>So, we can conclude it is not released off-the-shelf yet. due April.
>They do NOT mention the merchant uC sector, but target multimedia/ASIC.
>See the high price.
>ie Probably this has no on chip FLASH ( too slow ).
The big picture of the architecture looks a lot like a variation of
the PPro/P II family. I see the instruction stream being fed into a
parallel instruction decoder (different details, of course, but
similar idea.) This goes into what appears to be something quite like
the RISC execution unit also found in the PPro and P II varieties, the
re-order buffer for out of order execution, registration units for the
functional parts, and a retire unit which retires completed entries in
the ROB, posting results to registers in order. This overall theme is
nothing new and has been around a long time.
Jon
Reply by John B●February 6, 20062006-02-06
On 06/02/2006 the venerable Chris Hills etched in runes:
> In article <43e3ec97$0$827$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net>, John B
> <spamj_baraclough@blockerzetnet.co.uk> writes
> > On 03/02/2006 the venerable Jim Granville etched in runes:
> >
> >> mw wrote:
> > .
> > .
> > .
> >> > I saw the article in EE Times but nothing about it on Atmel's web site.
> >>
> >> Well, page 2 of that link says :
> >>
> >> > Atmel plans to make several families of off-the-shelf processors based on
> > the AVR32 core. The
> >> > first, a system-on-chip solution for consumer multimedia applications, is
> > scheduled for
> >> > introduction in early April.
> >> >
> > .
> > .
> > .
> >> -jg
> >
> > Ah yes, perhaps April 1st would be a good date. If Atmel's performance on the
> > AVR32 is similar to
> > the Mega256x devices then I wouldn't expect silicon before April 2007 or even
> > 2008.
>
>
> Apparently people have seen it running
In the streets of Glasgow people see water running, it usually turns out to be recycled lager. }:-}
--
John B
Reply by Chris Hills●February 6, 20062006-02-06
In article <43e3ec97$0$827$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.net>, John B
<spamj_baraclough@blockerzetnet.co.uk> writes
>On 03/02/2006 the venerable Jim Granville etched in runes:
>
>> mw wrote:
>.
>.
>.
>> > I saw the article in EE Times but nothing about it on Atmel's web site.
>>
>> Well, page 2 of that link says :
>>
>> > Atmel plans to make several families of off-the-shelf processors based on
>the AVR32 core. The
>> > first, a system-on-chip solution for consumer multimedia applications, is
>scheduled for
>> > introduction in early April.
>> >
>.
>.
>.
>> -jg
>
>Ah yes, perhaps April 1st would be a good date. If Atmel's performance on the
>AVR32 is similar to
>the Mega256x devices then I wouldn't expect silicon before April 2007 or even
>2008.
Apparently people have seen it running
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Reply by John B●February 3, 20062006-02-03
On 03/02/2006 the venerable Jim Granville etched in runes:
> mw wrote:
.
.
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> > I saw the article in EE Times but nothing about it on Atmel's web site.
>
> Well, page 2 of that link says :
>
> > Atmel plans to make several families of off-the-shelf processors based on the AVR32 core. The
> > first, a system-on-chip solution for consumer multimedia applications, is scheduled for
> > introduction in early April.
> >
.
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> -jg
Ah yes, perhaps April 1st would be a good date. If Atmel's performance on the AVR32 is similar to
the Mega256x devices then I wouldn't expect silicon before April 2007 or even 2008.
--
John B
Reply by Jim Granville●February 3, 20062006-02-03
mw wrote:
> 32 bit AVR to compete with the ARM... Atmel AVR32. Anyone using it?
>
> http://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=177105242
>
> "The AVR32 was developed by Atmel's 20-person engineering team in
> Trondheim, Norway. The team claims the AVR32 achieves 35 percent more
> throughput per instruction cycle than an ARM11 core when used to run
> such target algorithms as sum of absolute differences and inverse
> discrete cosine transforms."
>
> I saw the article in EE Times but nothing about it on Atmel's web site.
Well, page 2 of that link says :
> Atmel plans to make several families of off-the-shelf processors based on the AVR32 core. The first, a system-on-chip solution for consumer multimedia applications, is scheduled for introduction in early April.
>
> Although the AVR32 core will be available for use in ASICs fabricated in Atmel's fabs, Atmel says it will not license the core to other vendors. Third parties can have it in a custom chip, but Atmel will insist on building that device.
>
> The completed chips (not a processor core) are expected to sell in the $10 to $17 range, according to the company.
So, we can conclude it is not released off-the-shelf yet. due April.
They do NOT mention the merchant uC sector, but target multimedia/ASIC.
See the high price.
ie Probably this has no on chip FLASH ( too slow ).
It is also very single sourced, but Atmel probably worked out the ARM
license fees their foundry customers were paying to ARM, and decided,
they would like a slice of that....
It will have to compete with devices like :
http://www.semiconductors.philips.com/news/content/file_1213.html
Could result in some interesting internal politics between the Atmel ARM
devices, and this new, custom 32 bit design.
-jg
Reply by mw●February 2, 20062006-02-02
32 bit AVR to compete with the ARM... Atmel AVR32. Anyone using it?
http://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=177105242
"The AVR32 was developed by Atmel's 20-person engineering team in
Trondheim, Norway. The team claims the AVR32 achieves 35 percent more
throughput per instruction cycle than an ARM11 core when used to run
such target algorithms as sum of absolute differences and inverse
discrete cosine transforms."
I saw the article in EE Times but nothing about it on Atmel's web site.