CICC'99

The µPP ASIC: Desing, Methodologies and Tools for a Pay Phone System-On-a-Chip Based on an ARM Core and Design Reuse

Jacobo Riesco
jacobo@geocities.com
Juan Carlos Díaz
jcdiaz@tid.es
Pierre Yves Plaza
pierre@tid.es
Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo
Emilio Vargas, 6, 28043 Madrid. Spain.

1999 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC'99)
Town & Country Hotel/Convention Center. San Diego (CA) USA May 16-21, 1999.

ABSTRACT
This paper describes the µPP (Microcontroller for Pay Phones) ASIC, a system-on-a-chip solution based on the present spanish pay phone system. The design integrates an ARM embedded microprocessor, several third party blocks and new custom modules developed in house, using ARM's Advanced Microprocessors Bus Architecture (AMBA). The system has been designed for low power consumption and management. Design reuse, aided by the use of new management tools, and co-design, allowed an important reduction in global design time.


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