Dolphin Integration: The first 16-bit MCU core 8051 upward compatible, achieving 0.4 DMIPS/MHz

Meylan, France - September 24, 2010 -- The Enabler of mixed signal Systems-on-Chip unveils Flip80251-Hurricane, the latest member of its 16-bit microcontroller family; upward compatible with the i80251 legacy for best density, Flip80251-Hurricane offers increased addressing and processing power with the lowest power consumption.

Its association with best-in-class libraries and power regulators now complements the extensive set of expected peripherals such as UART, I2C bus, SPI, Built-in Debuggers and In-Circuit Emulator. It enables SoC integrators to achieve the best performance in a configuration around 16-bit cores facing a growing demand after the frenzy toward excessive word sizes.

The demand for ever lower-cost with increasing product connectivity (e.g. USB, Bluetooth, IEEE 802.15) and sophisticated analog sensors (e.g. accelerometers, touch screens) implies to more tightly integrate analog devices with digital pre-processing and communication.

Most 8-bit devices do not offer the performance to sustain such tasks without significant increases of clock rate and therefore in power consumption: this is why SoC Integrators are required to look for alternative devices with more advanced processor technology.

Flip80251-Hurricane, targets 8-bit or 16-bit microcontroller applications requiring an increase processing power, a reduced operating frequency or a larger memory space. It is a natural upgrade to address energy efficiency concerns in microcontroller applications.

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About Dolphin Integration

Dolphin Integration is up to their charter as the most adaptive and lasting creator in the Microelectronics Design Industry to "enable mixed signal Systems-on-Chip". It stars a quality management stimulating reactivity for innovation as well as independence and partnerships with Foundries. Their current mission is to supply worldwide customers with fault-free, high-yield and reliable sets of CMOS Virtual Components. The strategy is to follow product launches with evolutions addressing future needs, emphasizing resilience to noise and drastic reductions of power-consumption at SoC level, thanks to their own missing EDA solutions enabling Integration Hardware Modeling (IHM) and Application Hardware Modeling (AHM) as well as early Power and Noise assessment, plus engineering assistance for Risk Control.  For more information about Dolphin, visit: www.dolphin.fr/rock