Cirrus Logic Nine Series by Cirrus Logic

Semiconductor Vendor with ARM Processor RTL license from ARM

Product Description

The Cirrus Logic® Nine Series of SoC general-purpose processor products is a family of ARM9-based products designed for use in a variety of markets including digital entertainment, specialized terminals, VOIP controllers, security/surveillance and industrial control applications.

Implementing a concept known as Optimal Integration (OI), Cirrus Logic’s engineering team provides today’s embedded designer with a range of peripheral and feature-set solutions for their next-generation projects. From computationally intensive control applications with minimal peripheral content, to a complex integrated system that requires a complete range of peripherals, system developers can optimize the ideal peripheral mix and processing capability for their application. This freedom of choice minimizes production costs, speeds time to market and improves product profitability.

Individual products in the Nine-Series family include such highly differentiated features as a hardware floating point unit, integrated 10/100 Ethernet, IDE mass storage interface and flexible graphics support with an available 2D graphics accelerator. A powerful dual-bus architecture coupled with a memory architecture keeps system throughput at a maximum in data intensive applications.

The powerful Nine-Series system architecture is complemented by a range of complete operating system solutions. Both Microsoft WinCE .NET™ and Linux solutions are available with total driver support across the range of the Nine-Series family of processors. The Cirrus Logic staff of embedded experts completes the Nine Series solution set. The worldwide support team can help speed products to market with an emphasis on reducing the risks associated with developing state-of-the-art ARM9 processor-based solutions.

·System Hardware
- Range of “Optimal Integration” ARM9 based processor products designed to keep system manufacturing costs at to minimum
- Powerful dual-bus architecture for maximum system performance
- Available graphics engine with 2D accelerator
- Available networking and IDE mass storage interface
·System Software
- Cirrus Logic developed and optimized OS ports
- Wide range of available codec support
- Complete driver support
·Development Tools
- Evaluation boards to speed system design
- Operating System BSP products
- Advanced tool chain support
- Complete reference designs

·Ongoing Design Support
- Detailed design documentation
- Worldwide design support resources
- ISV/IHV added value programs for tools & SW
- Flexible logistics support for ODM and Contract Manufacturers

EP9315: A True System on a Chip
The EP9315 provides an entire “PC Class” system on a chip. It integrates a PCMCIA interface along with IDE, USB, and a wide range of integrated peripherals to dramatically decrease system cost, board size, and power consumption.

· 200 MHz processor with 16 KB data cache and 16KB instruction cache
· PCMCIA interface for wide range of peripheral support
· Graphics accelerator and display, touch-screen, and keypad interfaces
· Low-power operation with sleep modes

EP9312: Fully Featured Embedded Processor with Integrated IDE
This 200 MHz product is well suited for networked applications that require local mass storage from an integrated IDE interface. Integrated MaverickKey™ provides enhanced security and digital-rights-management capability.

·200 MHz processor with 100MHz system bus and MMU
·Integrated IDE interface for mass storage
·Display, touch-screen, and keypad interfaces for a rich human interface
·Integrated Ethernet MAC


EP9307: Powerful Graphics and Human Interface Capabilities
The EP9307 provides a low cost integrated solution for networked applications that require a graphics accelerator as well as display and audio capabilities to create a rich human interface.

·200 MHz ARM920T processor with a flexible graphics engine and 2D graphics accelerator
·Wide range of displays supported with dedicated SDRAM interface
·Touch-screen and keypad interface
·MaverickCrunch™ Math Engine with hardware floating point

EP9302: Networked SoC with Floating-Point Co-processor
The Cirrus Logic EP9302 is optimized for network-based applications that require 200 MHz of processing power and floating-point calulations.

·200 MHz processor with 100 MHz system bus
·MaverickCrunch™ Math Engine with hardware floating point
·Two-port USB 2.0 full speed host (OHCI)

EP9301: Economical Networked SoC Solution
The Cirrus Logic EP9301 is optimized for compute-intensive, network-based applications that require an upgrade from 8/16-bit solutions. It is a fully featured 166 MHz SoC with an integrated Ethernet interface and a complete complement of peripherals.

·Integrated 1/10/100 Mbps Ethernet MAC
·Two-port USB 2.0 and three UARTs
·Five-input A/D with 12-bit resolution
·Abundant general purpose I/0’s

Cirrus Logic Nine Series

Market Segment(s)

• Embedded
• Enterprise
• Home
• Mobile

ARM Processor(s)

• ARM920T

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