Palo Alto, CA — (press release excerpt) — Agilent Technologies Inc. today introduced the AAEC-2000, a high performance, low power, and highly integrated system-on-chip (SOC) that was designed for use in next-generation, high-volume PDAs and battery-powered mobile information appliances products requiring rich multimedia and user interfaces, such as Web browsers/tablets, smart phones and digital MP3 audio… players. The new SOC is being supported under Linux, plus several other operating systems. The chip integrates a 200 MHz ARM920T CPU, a wide selection of I/O, full color LCD controller, frame buffer, external memory controller, programmable PLL and a versatile memory manager. These features allow designers to tune their systems for optimal performance and low power consumption.

Features of the new Agilent AAEC-2000 SOC include . . .

• 200 MHz ARM920T processor core with 16KB I-cache, 16KB D-cache, MMU, and support for Virtual Memory Operating Systems.
  
• Rich selection of external interfaces including USB, an AC97 CODEC, MultiMedia Cards, audio output, Synchronous Serial devices and Smart Cards, three UARTS, IrDA, and keyboard.
  
• Dual Port Memory controller that supports ROM, SROM, FLASH, Burst FLASH, PCMCIA, and CompactFlash.
  
• Separate High Speed Video bus sub-system with Internal Frame buffer, LCD Controller.
  
• Full Color LCD supports STN and TFT panels up to 1024×768 with internal pallet memory.
  
• Programmable PLL and power management features.

Samples of the AAEC-2000 SOC are now available to qualified customers. Production quantities are expected to be available in August. Pricing for the AAEC-2000 is expected to be $15 each in 100,000 unit quantities. Agilent also is offering a companion development system.

A data sheet of the AAEC-2000 SOC in PDF format is available here.

 
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