Greenvity to Use Palmchip 8- and 16-bit Embedded Processors for Smart Energy and Home Area Network Silicon Solutions and Gateways.

SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwire - Aug 23, 2011) - Palmchip and Greenvity Communications today announced that Greenvity has licensed Palmchip's AcurX Smart Grid platform for use in Greenvity's smart energy and Home Area Network (HAN) based solutions.

The Palmchip AcurX Smart Grid platform includes 8- and 16-bit processor cores, Smart Grid energy security engine for Powerline Communications (PLC) IP cores plus other pre-integrated peripheral IP cores. The Palmchip solution will provide Greenvity's smart energy and HAN-based solutions with the programming capability and required security engine to differentiate in the smart energy market. Greenvity will use Palmchip technology as the embedded processor in its future system-on-chip (SoC) connectivity products aimed at the smart meter, home energy management gateway and appliance markets.

Greenvity currently is developing smart energy SoC products based on its reliable and robust PLC technology, which is compatible with the industry HomePlug Green PHY specification. Communication over power grids is difficult due to severe noise from different types of appliances and power loading. Greenvity offers unique and innovative techniques to enhance the levels of sensitivity for detecting signals under noisy conditions and in different environments. Supporting different frequency bands around the world that can be used indoors or outdoors, Greenvity's PLC technology solutions are aimed at a variety of applications from smart grid to smart meter and energy-efficient appliances.

"Greenvity is developing robust connectivity solutions for the growing number of electronics and appliances found in our daily lives," said Hung Nguyen, CEO of Greenvity Communications. "The performance, low power and small area of Palmchip's embedded processors met our overall system needs and will help us bring total solutions to market that allow consumers to optimize their energy consumption through efficient control and automation of devices connected to their home gateways."

"Palmchip is pleased to provide a low cost and ultra low power platform to Greenvity," said Maha Zaidi, Palmchip president and COO. "We believe that our technology will add value to Greenvity's innovative and power-efficient smart energy management based solutions."

About Greenvity Communications:
Greenvity is transforming the smart energy management and Home Area Network (HAN) markets with its innovative and patent-pending smart connectivity technologies. Greenvity develops Powerline Communications (PLC) system-on-chips and unique energy management technologies to enable the ultimate connectivity for a wide range of smart energy applications in the smart meter, home gateway, smart appliance, solar and electric vehicle markets. With full operations beginning in 2010, Greenvity is a well-funded, privately held company based in Silicon Valley.
www.greenvity.com

Palmchip, the Palmchip logo, AcurX51, Palm80251 and Palm8051 are trademarks of Palmchip Corporation. Greenvity and the Greenvity logo are trademarks of Greenvity Communications.

The platform comes with several enhanced hardware blocks, with custom software to fit the specific applications.

Santa Clara, CA (PRWEB) June 07, 2011

Palmchip launches the PALM80251 microcontroller for the smart grid home area network (HAN) markets. The PALM80251’s architecture has been enhanced to provide performance improvements over the MCS-251 family. The energy- and cost-efficient 80251 is based on a customized version of the Intel 80251 processor core together with silicon-proven peripherals targeting HAN appliances.

“Palmchip is committed to enabling low-cost consumer devices that address global energy consumption,” said Palmchip CEO Jauher Zaidi. “Consumer products are very price sensitive. By incorporating a 16-bit processor with low power and small area attributes into their designs, HAN manufacturers can deliver more competitive and cost-effective products.”

The 80251 core executes the instruction in a single clock cycle, and is an instruction set compatible implementation of the MCS-251 family. It’s about 3.19 times faster on average then the MCS-251 family. The Dhrystone v2.1 benchmark score is 0.258 DMIPS/MHz. The PALM80251 has a total addressable memory of 16Mbytes of which 16Kbytes is implemented as on–chip program memory, 1KBytes of on-chip data RAM, and the rest as external memory which can be used as RAM or ROM.

The PALM80251 can be used to implement a HAN coordinator and gateway device to communicate between the numerous devices which might be running inside a home or office building, and the internet gateway to enable remote energy management, where home or business appliances could be controlled from smart phones or PC to save energy.

For more information, please contact info@palmchip.com

Santa Clara, Calif., January 24, 2011

Palmchip launches the AcurX51^TM microcontroller SoC platform (AcurX51) for the smart grid network and home area network (HAN) markets. The energy- and cost-efficient AcurX51 is based upon a customized version of the Intel 8051 processor core together with silicon-proven peripherals targeting HAN appliances. The AcurX51 enables rapid implementation to control and monitor smart grid devices.

AcurX51 is an excellent solution for green, smart-connected communities that require low-power and low-cost chips and software that will enable remote energy management, where home or business appliances could be controlled from smart phones or PC to save energy.

In addition to power and cost considerations, chip companies today, more than ever before, are challenged by short product life cycles high design cost and long product development cycles. To address these challenges, developers need to strike a balance between performance, function and cost, as they develop new products. The AcurX51 SoC platform enables developers to leverage existing 8051 software tools while taking advantage of quick prototyping through Altera or Xilinx FPGAs. Palmchip also offers firmware and application software for smart grid management.

“All green home appliances will require connectivity provided by advanced semiconductor technology. These new semiconductor devices need to be small, power efficient and they must be created quickly in order to compete in this fast growing market. Palmchip’s AcurX51 provides that ready, cost-effective solution together with design reuse efficiency offered by a platform approach,” said Jauher Zaidi, CEO of Palmchip Corporation.

AcurX51 and Palm8051 core are currently designed into Zigbee wireless, home-networking chips, LED controller and home appliances. Palmchip offers custom design services to help its licensees to create a cost-effective and power-optimum solution for green computing. AcurX51 is ideal for smart grid applications, and customers do not need to use expensive and high gate count cores such as ARM, MIPS and ARC. Palmchip has reached the 400 million mark of its IP used in SoC chip shipment to date.

Palmchip AcurX51 SoC platform and Palm8051 processor core are available immediately. License fees start at US$9,995 with no royalty fees.

Founded in 1996, Palmchip is a leader in system-on-chip platforms and IP cores for mobile devices, embedded software and software applications. In addition to our proven IP cores, Palmchip provides the AcurX series of Plug-in-Ready Mobile SoC Platforms for low-power, high-performance designs. Palmchip technologies can be found on the market today in many mobile applications such as WiFi, network security, Bluetooth, ZigBee, data storage HDD, DVD devices and more. Palmchip also provides mobile design outsourcing services from concept to product. Please visit www.palmchip.com for more information. Palmchip, the Palmchip logo, AcurX51 and Palm8051 are trademarks of Palmchip Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Palmchip, the Palmchip logo, AcurX51, Palm8051 and Palm80251 are trademarks of Palmchip Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.