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Volume 46 (Sep 09, 2005)
NEC Electronics Receives Excellence Award at the 12th Annual LSI of the Year Awards Ceremony
On June 29, 2005, NEC Electronics' mobile phone application processor (MP211) won the 12th Annual LSI of the Year Excellence Award in the "Device" category. In fiscal year 2004, NEC Electronics also won the Excellence Award for its DVD recorder-use audio-video processing LSI (µPD61181), thus bringing the company's grand total of LSI of the Year awards to five.
Established in 1994 by Semiconductor Industry News and Reed Exhibitions Japan, Ltd. to further promote market development and technology in the semiconductor industry, "LSI of the Year" awards acknowledge the most remarkable LSI products and design environments from the previous year in the "Device and Design Environment/Development Tool" categories, respectively. This year, approximately 1,000 entries underwent stringent examination for the "Device" category, and the Second Grand Prize and Excellence Award winners were selected from among these entries.
General Manager Yamashina of the Mobile Systems Division attended this year's awards ceremony as NEC Electronics' representative and received the certificate and commemorative trophy from the sponsors (Photo 1, 2).
This year's winner is a mobile phone application processor (MP211) that enables multifunctionality, high performance and lower power consumption in mobile phones. In recent years, advancements have been made in the multifunctionality of mobile phones through the advent of functions such as text messaging, digital camera and videotelephony. In the future, as services such as terrestrial digital broadcasting reception and electronic payment become more widespread, demand will increase for high-performance CPUs. The MP211 application processor has three internal ARM CPU cores, and is equipped with software technology that enables parallel processing, thereby making it possible for each CPU core to carry out parallel processing. The MP211 includes NEC Electronics' proven digital signal processor (DSP), which realizes multimedia functions through software processing. The deciding factor in the MP211 being awarded this year's Excellence Award was its capability for high-speed processing in a wide variety of applications while maintaining low power consumption (Figure 1).
Upon receiving the award, General Manager Yamashina of the Mobile Systems Division, said, "Conducting parallel processing with multiple CPUs was already known to be an effective method for realizing mobile phones with low power consumption and high functionality. After more than 10 years of collaborating with customers, NEC's Central Research Laboratory and ARM Ltd. to develop the software technology for a parallel processing, high-performance bus architecture that would realize low power consumption, NEC Electronics finally completed the MP211 in September 2004. I am extremely pleased that you have acknowledged our achievement with this LSI of the Year Excellence Award. In the future, we will use the MP211 as a core technology platform to develop products that contribute to the further lowering of power consumption and increased functionality in mobile devices."
NEC Electronics will continue to work toward the development of products and technologies capable of playing a leading role in this ubiquitous society.
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