Differentiate your SoC with the new MCU core from Dolphin Integration

Grenoble, France -- April 13, 2015 -- For the sake of preserving programmer’s habits, market of microcontroller cores is making it difficult for Fabless suppliers to provide game-changing innovations. Solutions for application specific optimizations need to be found for each System-on-Chip, while embedding identical microcontroller cores does not help. The search for programmers productivity improvements is stalled. The risk for Fabless suppliers is to use insufficiently innovative Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and to propose insufficiently differentiated chips compared to competitors…

Relying on 30 years of expertise in Virtual Components of Silicon IP, Dolphin Integration is proud to announce its new 32-bit microcontroller core derived from the hugely popular 80x51 family: Flip80351 Zephyr, associated with its innovative IDE, named SmartVision™, driving innovation for low-power and high-density solutions.

This new microcontroller core based on a reduced instruction set (RISC) offers the possibility to:

• Select a 32-bit core adapted to the application performance requirements with ultra high code density and very low power consumption
• Optimize the MCU subsystem thanks to SmartVision™ (IDE) which allows to model and import descriptions of peripherals for a complete subsystem simulation of the application software with its peripherals

Why choose Zephyr?

Best processing power Pipeline optimized to reach 1 DMIPS/MHz with Power consumption as low as 6 µW/MHz at 90 nm

Best code density & efficiency Instruction set optimized for ultra high code density (with variable size instruction words) enabling smaller memories, thereby reducing Silicon area

Lowest power consumption Power consumption reduction of 75 % compared to the 80x51 family “Retention Ready” features for 10 times less consuming designs

Fastest time to market State of the art IDE SmartVision™ with advanced peripheral modelling and simulation features with Built-In Real time Debugger

A low power cache controller R-Stratus-LP can also be added to improve flash memory access time and drastically reduce its power consumption.

Do not hesitate to request the evaluation kit of Zephyr by contacting microcontrollers@dolphin-ip.com

About Dolphin Integration

Dolphin Integration contributes to "enabling mixed signal Systems-on-Chip" for worldwide customers - up to the major actors of the semiconductor industry - with Silicon IP components best at low-power consumption.

This wide offering is based on innovative libraries of standard cells, register files, memory generators and power regulators. Complete networks for power supply can be flexibly assembled together with their loads: from high-resolution converters for audio and measurement applications to power-optimized micro-controllers of 8 or 16 and 32 bits.

Over 30 years of diverse experiences in the integration of silicon IP components and providing services for ASIC/SoC design and fabrication, with its own EDA solutions solving unaddressed challenges, make Dolphin Integration a genuine one-stop shop covering all customers’ needs for specific requests.

The company striving to incessantly innovate for its customers’ success has led to two strong differentiators:

• state-of-the-art “configured subsystems” for high-performance applications securing the most competitive SoC architectural solutions,
• a team of Integration and Application Engineers supporting each user’s need for optimal application schematics, demonstrated through EDA solutions enabling early performance assessments

Its social responsibility has been from the start focused on the design of integrated circuits with low-power consumption, placing the company in the best position to now contribute to new applications for general power savings through the emergence of the Internet of Things.