Mountain View, California-based Triscend Corp plans to launch the first of a series of configurable microcontrollers at The Microprocessor Forum in October. The fabless semiconductor company, working on both chip design and development tools, won’t say much about its products until the announcement in October. But the company is thought to be pursuing the same kind of industry-standard integrated CPU design that Motorola Inc was with its Core+ project, under which programmable logic was to be integrated with the ColdFire RISC core. But that project was canceled last month as part of Motorola’s restructuring efforts (CI No 3,461). Atmel Corp is working on a similar approach. Triscend’s three founder members, Danesh Tavana, Stanley Young and Chris Balough, came from field programmable gate array company Xilinx Inc. Triscend currently has 30 staff, and will have completed its second round of financing by the end of this month, said Balough.
