24 February 2006

Latest Dualcore Microcontroller Contains Two ARM Cores

Dualcore Semiconductor has released its latest microcontroller – the DCIC9907 – complete with two ARM Cores which is being targeted at time-critical industrial control applications.

The industrial SoC (System on Chip) Microcontroller DCIC9907 contains two ARM 946E cores, two CAN channels, two 10/100 Mbit Ethernet MACs with HW extension for real-time protocols, and a motion control logic capability, specifically designed for time-critical and other industrial control applications. The DCIC9907 will be to be the central digital element of an advanced Servo System Platforms.

Within the DCIC9907, one of the two ARM cores can be used for complex real-time control and the second one for system infrastructure, such as HMI (Human Machine Interface) and the required communication interfaces. For this purpose, the real-time operating system EUROS has been ported to the DCIC9907, Dualcore confirmed.  In addition the microcontroller has been designed to keep power dissipation as low as possible.

Because there are few affordable solutions available in the market today with such functionality, Dualcore believes the DCIC9907 will be especially suited to time-critical, cost-conscious control applications.

The DCIC9907 will be available from March 2006.