Atmel´s CAP® is a microcontroller-based system-on-chip with fast local memory, a wide range of industry-standard peripherals and interfaces, and 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.

AT91CAP9S, based on the ARM926EJ-S®, offers superior performance at clock rates of up to 200 MHz, a number of standard interfaces (USB Host and Device, Ethernet, CAN, LCD Controller,  Image Sensor Interface, etc.), high-performance peripherals including 8 10-bit ADC channels, and an MP Block of 500K gates. The secured alternative offers AES and Triple DES encryption blocks. These are connected via a parallel bus structure that, together with a distributed DMA architecture, delivers the extremely high internal data bandwidth that is required by deeply embedded networked applications.