ARM in Embedded Applications

David Rose
Director, Consumer Electronics
Beijing 3rd June 2004

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25 cores per second in 2003
„ Set-top-box „ ABS/Airbag/Safety
55MAudio
„ Digital „ Body &6MDashboard
„ Gaming „ Infotainment

„ DVD „ Powertrain

„ SIM „ White goods

12M
„ Financial 7Mgoods (low end)
„ Brown

„ Industrial control
„ Gvt ID/IT security

782M
„ Wireless LAN „Voice phones
„ VoIP
74M 530Mphones
„Feature

„ Digital Modems „Smart phones / PDA

„ Home Gateways „Bluetooth™ peripherals

„ Ink Printer
„ Hard Disk Drives
„ Digital Camera
32M
„ Flash Cards 55M
„ Laser Printer
„ Networked Storage „ Digital Video Camera

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Wireless and Secure Solutions
2000
1800
1600
1400

Units (M's)
1200

+ Continuous
Convergence
1000
800
600
400
200
0
2004 2008

Wireless Secure
Nokia 9500 w/ WLAN

„ Over 500M units shipped into wireless applications

„ Nearly 80% of mobile phones shipping today are ARM core-based
„ MBX and Swerve technologies have been adopted by many leading handset
OEMs for 3D graphics
„ Oberthur and G&D have introduced ARM core-based SIM cards
„ First ARM1136™core-based chipset, OMAP2, was announced at 3GSM
„ Symbian, Microsoft, Linux and Palm are all supported by the ARM
architecture
Source: Gartner , ARC Group, ARM

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Automotive and MCUs
800
700
600

Units (M's)
500
400

+ Continuous
Convergence
300
200
100
0
2004 2008

Automotive MCUs

„ Average MCU per car will increase from 12 to 20 by 2009 (includes low end
autos)
„ 60% will be 16/32-bit architectures
„ First ARM core-based Powertrain design announced – Honda Life
„ 16 Semiconductor companies now shipping microcontrollers including
Philips, ST, OKI and TI
„ ST and OKI announced targeted toolkits for ARM core-based MCUs

* Source: Strategy Analytics, Gartner, Semico, ARM

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ARM in Consumer Entertainment

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 Overview of Consumer Electronics
„ What products are found in the Consumer Electronics
segment?
„ “Un-tethered” Digital Media Players
„ Portable Audio Players
„ Portable Media Players
„ “Plugged In” Media Appliances for the Digital Home
„ DTV
„ DVR
„ STB
„ DSC
„ Printers

„ What are some products that cross segments?

„ Often combine Networking & CE Functionality
„ Wireless media storage/streaming devices
„ Networked gaming consoles
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Market drivers
„ DVD quality user experience – DTV, HDTV
„ OEMs need feature rich devices - revenue
„ VoIP, Broadband, PVR
„ Analogue Switch off
„ FCC Mandate for integrated Digital Tuners
„ Huge investment in LCD & Plasma Screens
„ Media on the go, anywhere, anytime
„ Evolving Video Codec standards
„ PC OEMS moving to Consumer

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 Portable Audio Marketplace
„ Portable Audio Snapshot
„ Format:
„ MP3, AAC, ATRAC, WMA need support
„ Software codecs predominate in audio space
„ Content:
„ Multiple players are now entering the
downloadable music business
„ Compressed content (ripping and/or
downloading) primarily generated via PCs
„ Home music servers are becoming popular
„ Players:
„ Flash-based - Sigmatel
„ HDD-based Jukebox – PortalPlayer
„ Recommended ARM digital audio cores:
„ ARM7TDMI (embedded solution)
„ ARM926 (application OS)

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 Portable Video Marketplace
„ Portable Video Snapshot
„ Format:
„ Audio - MP3/AAC/WMA/SRS
„ Imaging – JPEG/PNG
„ Video – MPEG4/H.264/VC-9

„ Content:
„ Audio
„ Camera images
„ Music videos, TV PVR playback, movie promos, home video, streaming video
„ Players
„ OEMs and SiPs are deploying preliminary designs in 2004, volume in 2H05
„ Low end requirements
„ 2 hour video with 6 hours audio playback
„ MP3/AAC/JPEG/MPEG4
„ 24 fps QVGA (320x240) decode
„ High end requirements
„ 6 hour video with 15 hours audio playback
„ MP3/AAC/WMA/JPEG/PNG/MPEG4/VC-9/DiVx/H.264
„ 30 fps D1 (720x480) decode
„ Recommended ARM digital audio cores:
„ Low End: ARM7TDMI + OptimoDE
„ High End: ARM926EJ-S + OptimoDE, X-Scale

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ARM Licensable Technology
„ Compute engines
„ Processors
„ OptimoDE™ Data Engines
„ Graphics Engines – MBX, MOVE™

„ System IP and silicon

„ PrimeXsys™ platform solutions
„ CoreSight™
„ PrimeCell® peripherals, AMBA™

„ Software
„ Java - JTEK™
„ Security - TrustZone™
„ Power management – IEM
„ 3D – Swerve
„ Smart card execution environment – SecureJC

„ System design tools

„ RealView® development boards and tools
„ Reference flow methodologies
„ OptimoDE data engine technology

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 ARM926EJ-S
„ Jazelle enhanced cached
processor for OS based
platform applications
„ MMU to support: Symbian OS,
Linux, Windows CE & Palm OS
„ Selectable size instruction & data
caches (4K - 128K)
„ Instruction & data Tightly Coupled
Memory (TCM) interfaces with
wait state support
„ Separate instruction & data AHB
buses
„ ETM interface for real-time trace
with the ETM9
* Worst case: slow process, +125C, Vcc-10% depends on „ 220-250MHz* on TSMC 0.13µm G
synthesis tools, cell library and place route tools used „ Available Now

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 ARM926EJ Prime Starter Kit
„ Single Use Design License
„ ARM926EJ Foundry Core
„ ARM ETM9 Foundry Macrocell
„ ARM926EJ PrimeXsys Platform
„ AMBA Design Kit
„ RealView Versatile Baseboard for ARM926EJ
„ RealView Developer Suite (RVDS)
„ Multi-ICE

„ Options
„ Additional ARM IP
„ Additional 3rd party IP
„ PrimeXsys Platform Operating Systems Board Support Packages
„ WinCE
„ Symbian OS
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PrimeXsys Platform Benefits
„ Shortening Time to Market
„ Virtual Component & OS-ports is best possible starting point
„ Verification methodology enables faster testing
„ Models and development boards - parallel h/w & s/w development
„ Reduced Risk
„ Already available - known functionality, performance, size & cost
„ Knowledge transfer from ARM’s engineers to yours
„ Reduced Development Cost
„ Licensable IP so cost amortized across ARM partnership
„ Reduced On-going Costs
„ Latest versions of OS-ports provided as maintenance updates
„ PrimeXsys Community
„ Independent vendor H/W and S/W IP, and tools already working with
PrimeXsys

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PrimeXsys Platform - Software Support

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 ARM926EJ-S PXP - Hardware
Multi-port memory controller
ŠARM926EJ-S Š32-bit SDR or 16-bit DDR
ŠWith MOVETM ŠSupports MBX 3D graphics

Flexible bus
ETM/ETB infrastructure

Static memory
Peripherals for controller
OS support ŠSynch flash
ŠAsynch flash
ŠROM, etc.

Programmable Dual master

display sizes and
8 channel
colour depth

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MPCore Multiprocessor: Architecture
Configurable number of Private Fast (Can be used
hardware interrupt lines Interrupts (FIQ) as NMI)

Interrupt Distributor

Per-CPU Timer CPU Timer CPU Timer CPU Timer CPU

aliased Wdog interface Wdog interface Wdog interface Wdog interface
peripherals

IRQ

IRQ

IRQ
Configurable CPU/VFP CPU/VFP CPU/VFP CPU/VFP
between
1 and 4
Symmetric L1 Memory L1 Memory L1 Memory L1 Memory
CPU

I & D Coherence
Private Snoop Control Unit (SCU) 64bit bus Control
Peripheral bus
Bus

Primary Optional 2nd Vector Floating Point

AXI R/W AXI R/W (VFP) is optional
64-bit 64-bit bus
bus
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 MPCore: Performance and Low Power
„ Enables high-performance devices
„ For higher functionality devices
„ Up to 2600 DMIPS at 550MHz (CL013LV-OD and low K)
„ Lowers the cost of powering the device
„ Reduces power consumption of a device by up to 85%
„ As low as 0.57mW/MHz from generic 130nm process no cache
„ Improved system response
„ Enables user interface to respond more smoothly
„ Up to 4 applications running together with no performance degradation
32K instruction cache Power Die Area Performance
32K data cache TSMC 0.13 µm TSMC 0.13 µm 335-550* MHz, worst case on
generic, 1.2v generic, 65% various TSMC 0.13 µm
128 Interrupts
utilization processes
No VFP
1 CPU 0.8 mW/MHz 11 mm2 *660 DMIPS
2 CPU 1.8 mW/MHz 19 mm2 *1320 DMIPS
4 CPU 3.3 mW/MHz 35 mm2 *2640 DMIPS
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MPCore Multiprocessor: Summary
„ ARM launches its first multiprocessor core, delivering high
performance and low-power consumption
„ Part of the ongoing partnership with NEC announced last year
„ The MPCore multiprocessor is fully configurable and provides
scalable performance for such markets as consumer
entertainment and networking
„ The MPCore multiprocessor can be configured to contain
between one and four processors delivering up to 2600
Dhrystone MIPS of performance
„ The MPCore multiprocessor implements Adaptive Shutdown™
technology and the ARM Intelligent Energy Manager technology
to reduce power consumption by up to 85 percent

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 Available Chipsets (1)
Partner Core Speed Process Device Application Segment ASSP/ASIC
ARM920
Atmel ARM920T 180MHz 0.18 Microcontroller Universal All ASSP

Neomagic ARM926EJ-S 200MHz MiMagic6 Apps Processor Wireless ASSP

Neomagic ARM922T 220MHz MiMagic5 Apps Processor Wireless ASSP

Samsung ARM9 Family 300 - 533MHz L13HS S3C2440 Apps Processor Wireless ASSP

Samsung ARM9E Family 200-500MHz L13HS ARM9 Family Universal All ASSP

Samsung ARM10E Family 1GHz L13HS ARM9 Family Universal All ASSP

Samsung ARM11 Family 330-680MHz L09 ARM9 Family Universal All ASSP

Sharp ARM922T 200MHZ LH7A4xx Universal All ASSP

Conexant ARM920T 225MHz CX24434/5 Cable TV Decoder Consumer ASSP

Conexant ARM920T 250MHz CX24430/1/2/3 Cable TV Decoder Consumer ASSP

Conexant ARM940T 225MHz CX24951 Cable TV Decoder Consumer ASSP

Mindspeed ARM920T 330MHz 0.13 Gateways Networking

Cirrus ARM920T >200MHz 0.13 EP9312 Universal All

Marvell ARM946/966 330MHz 0.15 Press Release Comms & Drives Storage

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 Available Chipsets (2)
Partner Core Speed Process Device Application Segment ASSP/ASIC
Qualcomm ARM1136J-S 300MHz -1GHz MSM7xxx Apps Processor Wireless

ST ARM926EJ-S 350MHz 0.13 Nomadik Apps Processor Wireless

LSI ARM1136J-S 400MHz Gflx 0.11 RapidChip Universal Consumer ASIC + ASSP

LSI ARM1026EJ-S 333MHz Gflx 0.12 RapidChip Universal Consumer ASIC + ASSP

LSI ARM926EJ-S 266MHz Gflx 0.13 RadipChip Universal Consumer ASIC + ASSP

Motorola ARM926EJ-S 266-400MHz 0.13 iMX21 Apps Processor Wireless ASSP

Motorola ARM1136FJ-S >400MHz Roadmap Smartphone Wireless

Toshiba ARM1026EJ-S 375MHz 0.13 Smartphone Wireless

Intel X-Scale 266MHz IXP420,421,422 PDA & Networking Networking ASSP

Intel X-Scale 400-533MHz IXP425 PDA & Networking Networking ASSP

Intel X-Scale 400-600MHz IXP2400 PDA & Networking Networking ASSP

Intel X-Scale 500-700MHz IXP2800,2850 PDA & Networking Networking ASSP

TI ARM926EJ-S 204MHz OMAP16xx Apps Processor Wireless ASSP

TI ARM1136 333-450MHz OMAP Apps Processor Wireless ASSP

TI ARM1136 333MHz OMAP Apps Processor Networking ASSP

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ARM Key Technologies - Jazelle
„ Direct execution of Java ByteCode
„ 12K gates, not a coprocessor
„ Supports Sun KVM, CVM
„ 8x Performance of Software JVM
(Embedded CaffeineMark3.0)
„ Key to making DVB MHP / OpenCable platforms
responsive
„ Single Processor for Java and existing OS/applications
„ High performance without extra system cost
„ Low memory requirements
„ ARM926, ARM1026 & ARM1136 families

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 ARM Key Technologies Thumb-2
EEMBC Analysis - Performance
EEMBC Analysis – Code Size
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„ Second Generation of the Thumb
Architecture
„ Blended 16-bit and 32-bit instruction set
„ 25% faster than Thumb
„ 26% smaller than ARM
„ Increases Performance but maintains code
density
„ Maximizes cache and tightly coupled
memory usage
„ Eliminates mode switching overhead when
using floating point and interrupts
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ARM Key Technologies - IEM
Battery Life matters in
Consumer Entertainment
„ Portable media players
„ Portable gaming consoles
„ Convergent devices

Power dissipation costs

in Home Media
„ Set Top Box
„ Media Gateway
„ Wireless LCD TV
IEM helps makes power- and energy-efficient products
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 Summary - The Key advantages of ARM
„ Scalable Architecture - 0 to 2600MIPS, designed for SoC integration,
code compatible improves time to market, protects software
investment,
„ Architecture Extensions
„ OptimoDE - high performance Data Engine for efficient configurable
algorithms
„ Jazelle - high performance and efficient Java acceleration at low
system cost.
„ IEM – Intelligent Energy Management
„ TrustZone – security extension for the ARM architecture
„ Power VR/MBX – 2D/3D graphics acceleration

„ Code Density - lower system cost, More features per Kbyte, improved
performance from low cost memory systems
„ Code Tools - RealView Tools generate the most compact and efficient
code to get the most performance out of any ARM based SoC
„ Strong Industry Support - hundreds of third party developers, CE
specific support

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