NetSilicon NS7520, NS9360 Processors

A NET+ARM System-on-chip family was introduced by NetSilicon to meet embedded Ethernet needs of electronic device developers. The low-end NS7520 processor uses 32bit ARM7TDMI RISC processor core at 55MHz, which is widely used in mobile devices. For those which require more performance the most obvious choice is powerful NS9360, NS9750 processors with ARM926EJ-S core at 200MHz.

NS7520 features and highlights:

• Optimal performance to power consumption ratio of 32bit RISC ARM7TDMI core at 36,46 and 55MHz
• Onboard 10/100 Ethernet MAC: 10/100 Mbps MII PHY
• Dedicated DMA channels for Ethernet RX and TX
• 0.18um manufacturing process
• 2 independent serial ports, configured as UART, HDLC or SPI
• Extended temperature range from -40°C to 85°C

Find out more about NS7520 on an original NetSilicon site.

NetSilicon NS9360 SoC has more functionality and performance compared to NS7520. There were added integrated peripherals such as USB and LCD controllers, parallel 1284 port support.

NS9360 features and highlights:

• Increased performance of 32bit ARM926EJ-S processor core at 103, 155 and 177 MHz
• Memory management unit (MMU) support
• DSP and Java bytecode instruction extensions
• Embedded 10/100 Ethernet MAC: 10/100 Mbps MII PHY or RMII PHY
• Embedded LCD controller: SVGA, 18bit per pixel, 256k colors
• Embedded USB controller: Host/device
• I2C support
• 1284 parallel port support
• 4 independent serail ports configurable as UART, SPI Master, SPI Slave

Find out more about NS9360 on a primary NetSilicon site.