Freescale launches low-cost device

Freescale Semiconductor launched its low-cost device for digital media servers deployed in the small-office / home-office (SOHO) segment on Wednesday.

According to Freescale product marketing head Sunil S Kaul, the integrated device bundled with Gigabit Ethernet and advanced power management, makes an ideal platform for consumer applications like residential gateways, network access storage devices and printers.

"The cost-effective device enables deployment of high-speed peripherals at affordable price point and provides a 32-bit double data rate memory controller, a 32-bit peripheral component interconnect controller, a 16-bit local bus and four direct memory access channels," Kaul added.

To be shipped to electronic equipment manufacturers and application developers from the second quarter of 2007 for 10,000 chips, the made-in-India processor comes with integrated security for piracy protection, quality service and user-friendly features.

The advanced processor, code-named MPC8313E, was designed, developed and validated at the company's Indian chip design centre in Noida.