Chips And App Modules Target Comm Mart

The IP2000 family of Internet Processor chips are optimized for network connectivity applications, and are well suited for use in the device and bridge/gateway portions of the Internet infrastructure. The chips can be programmed, and reprogrammed, using pre-built software modules and configuration tools for a number of device-to-device and device-to-human communication applications.
Software modules that will be available for programming the processors include 10Base-T Ethernet, USB, UART, I²C, SPI, Parallel Slave physical interfaces, and a complete TCP/IP stack. The IP2022, the first device in the series, provides up to 100 MIPS of processing power and a communications-optimized. Offered in an 80-pin PQFP, price is $13.30 each/10,000. The ipModules, software modules, will be available from the company's web site.