SOCs have Cortex-A5, M4 processor cores

The VF7xx and VF6xx family of heterogeneous dual core SoCs have Cortex-A5 and Cortex-M4 processors. The ICs are intended for systems that want to concurrently run Linux or Android on the A core and an RTOS on the M core, so a single device can handle both human interface and real-time control needs.

They both include dual USB 2.0 OTG controllers with PHYs, dual 10/100 Ethernet controllers with an L2 switch, and 1 Mbyte of SRAM. Both devices have a hardware encryption accelerator and hardware tamper protection, and the VF7 includes a video A/D converter. (Price not given available September.)

By Jim Harrison

Freescale Semiconductor , Austin , TX
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