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[{"type":"text","content":"\n Arc International PLC\n11 March 2008\n\n\n\nMedia Contact:\n\nJonah McLeod\nARC International\n+1 408 437 3477\[email protected]\n\n\n\n\n New ARC(R) Energy PROTM Core Family Slashes Power Consumption By Up to 75%\n\n End-to-End Advanced Energy Saving Techniques Lengthen\n\n Battery Life for Mass Market Portable Applications\n\n\n\nSAN JOSE, Calif., and ST. ALBANS, England, March 11, 2008 - ARC International\n(LSE: ARK) today introduced a new family of licensable, 32-bit configurable\ncores that will further extend its leadership in low power processing. The ARC\n(R) Energy PROTM core family leverages the company's recently announced, ultra\nlow power Energy PRO technology to set new standards for low power consumption\nby reducing power usage by up to 75 percent. The Energy PRO family is aimed at\nthe portable and embedded microcontroller markets where lower power consumption\nis a critical design issue especially in multi-core designs. A new release of\nARC's MQX(R) operating system is included with the new Energy PRO cores,\nproviding additional ability to reduce system-on-chip (SoC) power consumption\nthrough monitoring and controlling the SoC's power by parts other than the core\nitself.\n\n\n\nARC's new Energy PRO cores use a holistic approach to power reduction that\ncombines sophisticated hardware and software techniques with a tool chain and\nlibraries. New innovations include architectural clock gating and dynamic\nvoltage and frequency scaling to reduce power usage, which are under the control\nof a dedicated Power Management Unit. Power control also can be extended to\nother functional blocks within the SoC to significantly reduce total chip power.\n By combining the most appropriate energy saving strategies on a per-block and\nper-subsystem level, SoC designers can define multiple power management modes to\nensure that the device uses the minimum possible power while still providing the\nrequired performance on a real time basis - even to the extent of shutting the\ncore down when no threads are running.\n\n\n\n\"Holistic, end-to-end solutions will help customers meet challenging low power\ndesign requirements imposed by portable consumer devices,\" explained Bill\nJackson, ARC's vice president of marketing. \"For the first time advanced\npower-saving techniques are available to SoC designers that address pow...