Toshiba licenses ARM core for Mobile products - The Circuit - ARM926EJ-S

Electronic News, Feb 4, 2002

TOSHIBA CORP. LAST week announced it has licensed ARM's ARM926EJ-S core processor. Tokyo-based Toshiba plans to use the ARM core for Java applications in wireless products such as mobile phones and PDAs.

Cambridge, England-based ARM said the core contains ARM Jazelle technology that accelerates Java execution by up to eight times compared to a fully software-based JVM. The core is designed to run mobile platform operating systems, such as Linux, Palm OS, Windows CE and Symbian OS. The company said the core is fully synthesizable, allowing it to be applied to several generations of process technology. The ARM926EJ-S also features selectable size instruction and data caches, and instruction and data tightly coupled memory interfaces.

"Mobile products are evolving to embrace such functions as image transmission that requires de facto standard Java technology-based middleware. This license will allow us to easily offer a Java technology-based SOC solution to our customers," said Shigeru Komatsu, general manager of the telecom and network division at Toshiba's semiconductor company, ma statement. "Our licensing of the industry-leading ARM926EJ-S core will enable us to expand our SOC solution business with IP-rich advanced embedded technologies."

Toshiba first became an ARM licensee in 1999, when it licensed two cores for its embedded microprocessor business.

The ARM926EJ-S core also includes an embedded trace macrocell interface and an advanced high-performance bus on-chip interconnect interface.