Applied Micro Circuits (AppliedMicro), a provider of computing and communications offerings, has unveiled a family of embedded processors, which it claims to provide the industry’s smallest form factor for a power architecture-based product.
The company said that the new APM801xx family of processors supports high performance and broad selection of peripherals for a range of consumer devices from gateways, control panels and energy meters to network attached storage systems, consumer Wi-Fi access points, residential gateways and connected displays.
Each of the system-on-a-chip devices in the APM801xx family is designed to deliver server-class processing performance for consumer embedded systems that require less than 1W of operating power and low bill-of-material cost. The APM801xx family supports CPU frequencies up to 800Mhz and are enabled with various high-speed interfaces, the company claims.
According to AppliedMicro, the estimated performance of the processor’s family is 1,216 Dhrystone MIPS and typical power consumption of 1W in active mode and 0.3W in standby mode. The new processors come in three variants, 801xx-400, the 801xx-600, and 801xx-800 and will be available in two different packages in 10×10-mm BGA and 14×14-mm BGA.
Gopi Sirineni, vice president of consumer and SMB business unit at AppliedMicro, said: “AppliedMicro’s APM801xx processor family provides best-in-class energy consumption without sacrificing performance for these applications. The power envelope of the APM801xx processor is second-to-none in its class and it allows embedded developers to start their migration toward full-featured, low-cost systems.”
