Camas, WA — (press release excerpt) — Sharp Microelectronics today announced that it has shipped beta customers the LH7A400, a 200MHz system-on-chip (SOC) with ARM922T core, offering high performance at the lowest power consumption available. Beta customers span a wide range of applications: Wireless Handheld Gaming Devices, SmartPhones, PocketPCs, Home Entertainment Controllers, Industrial Web-Tablets,… and Point-Of-Sale Devices.

The new LH7A400 is based on a 32-bit ARM9TDMI RISC core (with MMU) and includes a color LCD display controller, and provides glue-less interfaces to SRAM/SDRAM/Flash devices, MMC, PCMCIA/CF, and Smart Cards. For communication, the LH7A400 offers serial as well as parallel interfaces (USB, UARTs, Synchronous Interfaces, and AC'97 Codec Interface).

Further details are available here.

Sharp has announced that embedded Linux support will be provided for the LH7A400 through a strategic arrangement with Lineo Inc.

 
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