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ARC's "Sound-to-Silicon" Audio Solutions

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ARC Delivers Unique Value in Solutions-to-Silicon

ARC has a unique offering of vertical integrated solutions for various applications segments. For each segment a dedicated selection of core configurations, specialized hardware extensions, optimized software algorithms and functions, development flows and modeling platforms can be made available.

  • Full range of Synthesizable CPU (& DSP) Cores Portfolio

    • – Smallest area footprint
    – Best in class performance/area ratio
    – True Single-Cycle Dual-MAC DSP Performance

  • The most power and area efficient Harvard RISC cores

    • – As much as 4x better power efficiency over closest competitor
    – As much as 3x size efficiency over closest competitor
    – Cores & Subsystem all configurable and extendable through “Core Generator”
    – Virtually unlimited number of configurations at the customer choice
    – Allows customers’ differentiation and “secret sauce”
    – Scalability with Programmable Multi-core Architecture
    – Lowest Power Audio Subsystem (e.g. 7 MHz for MP3 decode giving 140 hours playback!)
    – Programmable Video Subsystem (e.g. 162 MHz for H.264 decode)
    – Pre-Certified Audio/Video Codecs
    – Optimized Post-processing Software for Audio and Video Enhancement

  • One Stop Shop - Software Dev. Tools & Embedded RTOS

    • – 3 Tool Chains: MetaWare, Green Hills, GNU
    – Wide range of Software Protocol Stacks
    – MQX RTOS, ThreadX, micrium uC/OS,……, uCLinux, Embedded LINUX, ….

  • Global Technical Support & Services

    • – Core IP, System IP, ASIC & FPGA, RTOS, LINUX, TOOLS, ….