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. Read more
