If, "embedded" is one of the most words that the electronic engineer is talking about in 2001. The most words discussing the most in 2002 is "ARM". What exactly is ARM, he is the name of a British electronic company, the full name means Advanced Risc Machine. The company was established in November 1990 and is a joint venture with Apple Computer, Acorn Computer Group and VLSI Technology. Acorn has launched the world's first commercial single-chip RISC processor, and Apple has wished to apply RISC technology to its own system. The new standard of ARM microprocessor is therefore successive.
In the late 1980s, the semiconductor industry industry chain has just been divided into division, TSMC, and Silitone and other semiconductor foundry are quietly rising. Some of the US Silicon Valley is also emerging as the spring bamboo shoots. The so-called Fabess has designing chips, but the production process The package is produced to TSMAT and other foundry. And ARM has created the Chipless production model for the world, that is, the company does not produce chips, nor to design a chip, but design an efficient IP core, authorized to use the semiconductor company, semiconductor company in ARM Based on the basis of technology, you can add your own design and launch chip products, and finally use these chips by OEM customers to build system products based on ARM technology. This way is a bit like a high pass and semiconductor industry in the communication industry, they stand upstream of the semiconductor industry chain. ARM established 12 years ago may face a lot of risks, because no one knows that this road can not be able to do it, but now the fact has proved that ARM has left a no one, but the correct road. As an additional product, he also made China's industry from this window to the UK's electronic company, ARM's success has driven the development of the UK's Chipless.
Because ARM's product is IP core, there is no physical sense of hardware or software entities, so it can only be registered in China to become a "consultation" company, although the consultation is just a small piece of business. The core business of ARM is the sales chip core technology IP. There are currently 103 giant IT companies in the world in using ARM technology. There are 19 ARM users, including Texas Instruments, SSS, PHILIPS, Intel. Wait. The only one in the 20 giants did not buy ARM authorized is Intel's old head AMD, because the Intel portable processor uses Strongarm, and AMD acquires AlchemY's counter-strength and uses the MIPS structure.
The microprocessor core is the top priority of ARM technology, and there is ARM7, ARM9, ARM9E-S, STRONGARM, and ARM10 series to market. ARM patented technology revenue mainly comes from two aspects, one is a patent license fee. If the customer is charged at one time in ARM patent; the other part is the patent usage fee of the customer product according to a certain proportion, that is, the customer is sold. The chip is charged with the equivalent cost. These two income account for 70% of the total company's total income. At present, China has already had ZTE, SMIC and Shanghai Huahong purchased ARM kernel authorization to produce their own chip. Other priorities in ARM China's business are also supporting the support of the chip design company (FABLES), and university programs. In addition, ARM also authorizes the authorized distributors of Kehui Hongsheng (IMPACT) and Beijing Sirios Development Tools to grow in 2002 in three digits (100%).
In general, ARM partners are divided into three:
1. EDA Partner Program, combines ARM online system design, reuses the expertise of IP generation and IP models and the professional specialties of leading EDA tool manufacturers, and develops SOC products.
2. ARM Technology Sharing Program, the expansion and standardization of the ARM and external design service company's partnership, and now there are already more than 2,900 engineers. 3. Manufacturer plans to make the OEM of emerging markets can share ARM processor technology for designing and manufacturing advanced SOC solutions.
Beihang Publishing House and Tsinghua Publishing Snake published a number of books on ARM technology and will also publish more and higher quality books. At the same time, ARM China also plans to authorize all partners to open ARM technical training courses, and provide training for partners, on the other hand, and the University of China will conduct university cooperation programs, increase ARM technology promotion and popularity, help China's electronic engineers quickly and internationally, and mastered the latest electronic design technology.
In summary, ARM is the world's famous 32-bit embedded RISC chip kernel designer design company, and ARM's product trademark. The ARM embedded kernel has been adopted by major chip manufacturers around the world. ARM-based development technology sweeps global embedded The market has become one of the mainstream technology of embedded systems. As the embedded industry, the civi company is in an embedded industry, and is committed to ARM technology. Embedded system development application training. In December 2001, the spiral officially became an ARM authorized China's only designated training center (ATC) and its series of product agents.
The 32-bit CPU core developed by ARM, global manufacturers can obtain authorized production ARM chips. And the price is very inexpensive, such as the 4510 of the network application, only 45 yuan, so low-end products can use 8051 and other 8-bit microcontrollers, while the high-end products use ARM to be very sensible. Many people are now learning ARM, starting to buy ARM experiment boards and JTAG emulators.
