Atmel´s CAP® is a microcontroller-based system-on-chip with fast local memory and a wide range of industry-standard peripherals and interfaces with a Metal Programmable (MP) Block that allows the designer to add custom logic. By combining the performance density and low power consumption of the fixed portion of the device with the flexibility of the MP Block CAP enables application-specific products to be developed in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost of standard-cell ASICs, but at a unit price close to that of standard cell devices. CAP also offers superior performance, smaller form factor and lower power consumption at a unit price significantly lower than an MCU-plus-FPGA combination for the same functionality. CAP is fully supported with an emulation board, software development tools, operating systems, code modules and a worldwide network of expert design centers to facilitate application software development. The CAP MP Block can be personalized with IP developed by the customer, by third-party design centers or from Atmel’s extensive libraries.
AT91CAP7S, based on the ARM7TDMI® processor core, has a generous amount (160K bytes) of fast on-chip SRAM and a large MP Block of 450K ASIC gates (2-input NAND equivalents). A minimal number of ARM peripherals are instantiated in the fixed portion of the design to address low cost applications. Additionally, there is the flexibility to instantiate other peripherals in the MP Block using IP available in Atmel´s vast library.
Atmel´s CAP® is a microcontroller-based system-on-chip with fast local memory and a wide range of industry-standard peripherals and interfaces with a Metal Programmable (MP) Block that allows the designer to add custom logic. By combining the performance density and low power consumption of the fixed portion of the device with the flexibility of the MP Block CAP enables application-specific products to be developed in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost of standard-cell ASICs, but at a unit price close to that of standard cell devices. CAP also offers superior performance, smaller form factor and lower power consumption at a unit price significantly lower than an MCU-plus-FPGA combination for the same functionality. CAP is fully supported with an emulation board, software development tools, operating systems, code modules and a worldwide network of expert design centers to facilitate application software development. The CAP MP Block can be personalized with IP developed by the customer, by third-party design centers or from Atmel’s extensive libraries.