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Dual-ARM core microcontroller for time-critical industrial control applications

22 March 2006 DSP, Micros & Memory

German company Dualcore Semiconductor has unveiled a unique industrial SoC (system on chip) microcontroller that contains two ARM 946E cores, two CAN channels, two 10/100 Mbit Ethernet MACs with HW extension for realtime protocols, and a versatile motion control logic capability, specifically designed for time-critical and other industrial control applications. The new DCIC9907 is a highly integrated circuit, which supports many high-level functions for controlling and supervising industrial applications. Within the chip, one of the two ARM cores can be used for complex realtime control and the second one for system infrastructure, such as HMI (human machine interface) and the required communication interfaces. For this purpose, the company has ported the versatile realtime operating system EUROS to the DCIC9907. A unique feature of the device is a complex-motion control block, which has all the built-in features necessary to control and supervise any kind of electronic motor directly from the IC. For example, it is possible to control three PWM channels in parallel. The DCIC9907 can be clocked up to 128 MHz and has 109 I/O pins. Power dissipation is low, so no heatsinks or fans are required. The SoC comes in an industrial temperature range 305-pin BGA package.

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