14 DAY TRIAL // nVidia, the graphics solutions manufacturer, teamed up with British chips developing company ARM in order to promote next generation devices. Thus, nVidia licensed the ARM 11 MPCore processor, through which it will add a processing function to the future system-on-chip architecture.
The ARM 11 MPCore processor includes the ARM SIMD extensions, the Intelligent Energy Manager technology for the most effective management of power and Jazelle technology for Java acceleration.
The ARM 11 MPCore chip is running at 550 MHz and is characterized by a high capacity memory system, which includes up to 1,3 GBps and a scalability of over 2,600 Dhrystone 2.1 Mips of aggregate performance in a cache four-way-type configuration.
These types of processors are beginning to be more and more popular, because they combine both very good scalability performances and a very low power consumption level. There's a lot at stake, and the trend is to adopt these solutions on a large scale, on flexible cores as this ARM 11 MPCore. They can be used in singe-processor systems, but also in symmetric and asymmetric multi-processor configurations.
All the applications compatible with the next generation of digital devices have remarkable graphics, and by joining forces with ARM and its array of technologies, nVidia can promote this solution as an applications' processor and deliver new devices which offer complex media applications to their users.