[ Thanks to LinuxDevices.com for this link.
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“Want to implement the essentials of a Linux-based Internet
firewall or residential gateway using hardly more than a single
chip? Austin, Texas startup Alchemy Semiconductor, Inc. may have
just what you need: the Au1000 “Internet Edge Processor”,
unveiled earlier this week at the Embedded Processor Forum in San
Jose, Calif.”
“The Au1000 is a high integration system-on-chip IC that
contains — all within a single chip — a 200-500 MHz 32-bit MIPS
CPU core, R4000 MMU, two 10/100 Mbits/sec Ethernet controllers,
four UARTs, USB (host/device), IrDA, AC’97 controller, I2S audio
codec interface, and two SPI/SSI interfaces. The device also
contains an 8-channel DMA controller, 32-source Interrupt
controller, and can interface SDRAM system memory and
SRAM/Flash/EPROM program memory.”
“Given the high performance and high level of functionality, and
in light of the target markets and applications, it comes as no
surprise that Alchemy intends to ensure full embedded Linux support
for the Au1000 and future Internet Edge Processors.”