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08/04/12 11:59
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#187995 - Bigger chips
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Not that I didn't mean all ARM chips as bigger chips. But bigger ARM chips - like ARM9, ARM11 etc. Chips with normally external flash and RAM and intended to give 486, Pentium etc performance to embedded equipment. When designing a router with 100Mbit/s or Gbit/s network interfaces, it doesn't matter much if the processor needs an extra supply voltage.

The nice thing here is that since they were able to split the sizes of the I/O cells in relation to the geometry of the processor core, the cores are normally consuming so little power that it is rather easy to integrate DC/DC converters to keep the cores powered. So be it 8051 or ARM chips, we still get lots and lots of MIPS available at a very battery-friendly power consumption.

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CPLD level translators            01/01/70 00:00      
   TI Voltage level translators ?            01/01/70 00:00      
      thanks            01/01/70 00:00      
      Why specifically CPLD?            01/01/70 00:00      
         True            01/01/70 00:00      
            Perhaps certain CPLD's would do the job            01/01/70 00:00      
               Wide Vcc CPLDs sadly rare            01/01/70 00:00      
                  forgive my ignorance, but ...            01/01/70 00:00      
                      some examples            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Same for ARM            01/01/70 00:00      
                           some small devices have OCR too            01/01/70 00:00      
                              Bigger chips            01/01/70 00:00      
            Altera FPGAs            01/01/70 00:00      

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