Release of New System LSI Devices by NEC Electronics
NEC Electronics made an announcement on development of new system-on-chips (SoCs), the EC-4260 (NaviEngine-MID) and EC-4250 (NaviEngine-mini) targeted to be implemented into automotive infotainment systems. The new systems were designed to meet the performance, peripheral set and software ecosystem which is demanded by high-performance application s such as navigation, infotainment and telematics systems. The new EC-4260 three ARM-11 base CPU cores operates at 1440 MIPS at 400 MHz, while the EC-4250 performs 960 MIPS using only two ARM-11 cores. The multi CPU core architecture in the new systems support symmetrical multi-processing (SMP) mode whereby single version of operating system is running on multiple cores and tasks are dynamically allocated to cores at runtime resulting in maximum utilization of available processing power. The new devices also come with a graphic processing unit (GPU) capable of 2D/3D imaging, supporting OPenGL ES and OpenVG specifications. Furthermore, the new devices support variety of protocols such as USB,MOST, bus, CAN, I2S and I2C. The new devices also include an audio routing engine which features sample rate conversion capability. As pat of the suite of software in supporting quick development are evaluation boards, in-circuit emulator, on-chip debugger, middleware, and operating systems. Both EC-4260 and EC-4250 devices are available for samples at a price per unit of US$140 and US$70 respectively. Company’s mass production is estimated to begin in 2010 with an expected 100,000 units per month by 2012.
