Triad has announced a system-on-chip (SoC) that integrates the ARMR Cortext-M0 with the via-configurable analogue and digital functions needed to deliver embedded mixed-signal solutions. Triad's Mocha-1T array provides access to ARM 32-bit processing performance combined with silicon-proven via-configurable array (VCA) technology, allowing electronic-system designers to customise analogue and digital features with lower power consumption and greater system cost savings.The Mocha-1 platform enables integration of complete mixed-signal SoCs by combining the Cortex-M0 processor, backed by the ARM development ecosystem, with Triad's VCA technology. Developers are able to integrate entire existing discrete PC board-level designs into the Mocha-1 platform. Triad's VCA technology combines silicon-proven analogue, digital, memory and microprocessor resources on a single ASIC die.
All of the resources on a VCA are configured by placing vias within a global-routing fabric. Vias are placed on the VCA using Triad's analogue-aware, via-only automatic place-and-route software, which configures and interconnects the entire VCA without the need for full-custom manual layout.
Triad's Mocha-1 integrates a Cortex-M0 32-bit processor running at 25MHz with 32KB of EEPROM memory, 24KB of SRAM, 75,000 gates of user-configurable logic and a selection of analogue resources including op-amps, DACs, ADCs, resistors, capacitors, transistors and switches. Combining the Cortex-M0 with these configurable analogue and digital resources allows Mocha-1 to realise a range of single-chip, mixed-signal SoC solutions for industrial, medical, sensor, Bluetooth low-energy and military/aerospace applications.
