What chips are other embedded systems developers using in their systems? In our annual survey, your peers reveal their vendor and size preferences. Jack Ganssle interprets the data here.

One processor for all real-time standards - hyNet processor for real-time Ethernet
All major industrial automation companies have chosen Ethernet to be the "field bus" of the future. A new processor now covers all real-time standards in one.

Fast alle Echtzeit-Ethernet-Standards benötigen - zumindest für bestimmte Betriebsmodi - keine Spezial-ASICs. Zum Teil liegen sie sogar als reine Software-Spezifikation vor. Dennoch:Wenn das „Orchester" aus Funktionen, Schnittstellen und Protokollen nach dem richtigen „Taktstock" spielt - sprich durch geeignete Hardware unterstützt wird - lässt sich meist noch mehr Leistung aus dem System herausholen.

Hyperstone, iAd, and Softing today announced the Real-Time Ethernet Alliance. Based on Hyperstone's hyNet family of network processors, partners will combine their products and expertise, supporting all major Real-Time Ethernet protocols in a flexible and comprehensive technology platform. The technology roadmap includes support of the ETHERNET Powerlink, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET, and EtherCAT real-time protocols.Hyperstone will provide processor hardware expertise through the hyNet family of processors, which are specifically designed to support several RTE standards.

ModelSim with SystemVerilog DPI Speeds Simulation
and Debug of C Models
Hyperstone accelerates its RTL-simulation by raising the level of abstraction from netlists to C models. This was made possible through the SystemVerilog DPI in ModelSim®. ModelSim's interactive C-debugger also helped reduce the time to verification closure.

Kompatibilität, die nicht mehr kostet - Mit Ethernet und TCP/IP homogen vernetzen
Wegen der hohen Kosten hapert es in der Gebäudeautomation bislang oft mit dem Einsatz von Ethernet und TCP/IP. Das kann sich jetzt ändern. Hyperstone und Smart Network Devices ermöglichen mit dem hyNet32XS-Controller und dem Betriebssystem HyNetOS die Materialkosten für einen Raumknoten unter 25 Euro zu drücken. In Kombination mit ZigBee udn Bluetooth lassen sich auch die Nachrüstkosten bei Gebäudeinstallationen reduzieren.

Ethernet in Echtzeit
Der 32-bit-RISC/DSP-Controller hyNet32XS mit zwei Ethernet MACs und einem Ethernet-PHY ist ein wahrer Vernetzungskünstler. Harte Echtzeit-Anforderungen bestimmen heute die Ethernet-Anwendungen vor allem in der Industrieautomation. Um Echtzeit-Anforderungen zu einem Bruchteil der Kosten vergleichbarer bisheriger Systeme zu erfüllen, integriert der neu entwickelte Vernetzungs-Baustein hyNet32XS von Hyperstone als erster Chip auf seinen zwei On-Chip-Ethernet-Schnittstellen einen Uhrensynchronisationseinheit.

Gute Ideen, breites Know-how und perfekt abgestimmte Kooperationen: drei Firmen und ihr innovativer Kommunikations-Controller
Das Schlagwort unserer Tage heißt „Vernetzung" und die zugehörige Technologie ist Ethernet. Was sich in der Büro-Infrastruktur seit Jahren bewährt hat, hält nun Einzug in die Industrieautomation, in Kraftfahrzeuge, in Consumer-Produkte und in Häuser und Wohnungen. Noch kann die Verfügbarkeit von preiswerten und leistungsstarken Kommunikations-Chips das Wachstum dieser Entwicklung aktiv beeinflussen - bald wird jedoch eine enorme Nachfrage die Produktion der Netzwerk-Bausteine bestimmen.Genau der richtige Zeitpunkt also, an dem die drei Partner Hyperstone, iAd und SND ihren gemeinschaftlich realisierten, außergewöhnlichen Kommunikations-Controller und das dazu passende, abgestimmte Support- und Design-in-Konzept am Markt präsentieren.

CML (USA) has recently obtained registration to include Hyperstone, Inc. in its ISO9001:2000 quality system.

Hyperstone AG, together with Global Digital Technologies SA, announced today the availability of embedded Linux.

CML Microsystems Plc ("CML"), the UK-based semiconductor company, announces today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Hyperstone AG ("Hyperstone"), a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Germany.

Electronic Engineering Times - Asia

ST Sdělovací technika, Czech Republic

The article is included in the NewWave publication by NewLogic and is supplement to a banner at Electronic Engineering Times (www.eet.com).

Nuremberg, Germany, Embedded World - February 18th, 2003 – Hyperstone, a fabless semiconductor and microprocessor design company and NewLogic Technologies, a leading supplier of intellectual property (IP) cores for wireless technology, today announced that they have signed a technology agreement based upon their embedded RISC/DSP and wireless technology.

Nuremberg, Germany, Embedded World - February 18th, 2003 - Hyperstone introduced today its new hyWinTools™ software, a suite of Microsoft® Windows®-based development tools for the Hyperstone E1-16XS and E1-32XS processors.

Konstanz, Germany, January 14, 2002 - Hyperstone introduced today its new F2-16X series of power-efficient and highly compatible flash memory controllers.

Embedded-Internet-Technologie auf dem Weg zum System-on-Chip, Design&Elektronik, Germany (www.elektroniknet.de/)

According to Dr. Matthias Steck, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Hyperstone experienced double-digit growth during this business year. Both profit and sales exceeded all expectations.

Die AK Elektronik Vertriebs GmbH ist seit 01. Juni 2002 offizieller Distributor der Hyperstone AG in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz.

Elektronik Revue 6/7 2002; Germany

Electronic Engineering Design (www.eedesign.com)

2001 Volume Shipments Maintained with Significantly Increased Profits; January Bookings Already 40% of Previous Full Year; Major New Design Wins with Digital Cameras and SecuGen Fingerprint Biometrics Applications

2001 Volume Shipments Maintained with Significantly Increased Profits; January Bookings Already 40% of Previous Full Year; Major Success with HP Photosmart Digital Camera Application; Dr. Harald Westerholt, former Managing Director of Siemens ElectroCom, Appointed as CEO

Dedicated Systems magazine 2001 Q4 (www.dedicated-systems.com)

Elektronik Journal 11/2001, Germany

ELEKTRONIK nr. 9 – 2001, (Denmark)

Ref: HYP078b Date : 20 June 2001, Taipei and Konstanz

Elektronik 20/2001, Germany (www.elektroniknet.de)

EETimes 07/19/2001 (www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010719S0097)

Soft Computing Technology (SCT), Soquel, CA, has announced that it will provide hardware and software design services for systems based on Hyperstone RISC/DSP processors.

Konstanz, May 23, 2001 - Hyperstone announced that customers already have built compact flash memory cards (CF-cards) with 512 MByte capacity. The cards are equipped with 4 pieces of 1 GBit Flash memory chips that are controlled by Hyperstone's flash memory controller F1-8X.

Hyperstone Announces Massive Boost to Year 2000 Processor Shipments and Sales; Projects Threefold Increase in Sales This Year in Spite of Reports of Market Downturn

Das deutsche Design-Haus Hyperstone AG konnte im Jahr 2000 mehr als eine Millionen Hyperstone-Prozessoren verkaufen beziehungsweise lizenzieren. Damit verfünffachte sich der Umsatz gegenüber 1999.

Hyperstone AG, the German-based embedded RISC microchip specialist, shipped over 1 million devices last year as its revenues jumped 500 per cent.

With effective date of January 2001, the German-based microprocessor design company Hyperstone AG has opened a branch office in Taiwan.

Maastricht, Netherlands - Research by the University of Athens has discovered that RISC-like principles can be applied to reconfigurable hardware to yield a high level of performance with comparatively little logic.

PRO3 targets the tight coupling of telecommunication software and hardware for the efficient execution of telecommunication networking functions in embedded, programmable hardware architectures.

Embedded System Engineering (www.esemagazine.co.uk)

Kern-Kraft - Microcontroller-Cores im Vergleich (Teil 2)

Elektronik Praxis Embedded Systems 9/2000, Germany (www.elektronikpraxis.de)

Elektronik 23 / 2000, Germany (www.elektroniknet.de)

Hyundai Electronics, einer der größten Hersteller von DRAMs, bringt eine neue Serie von Mikrocontrollern auf den Markt, die auf der kombinierten 32-Bit-RISC/DSP-Architektur von Hyperstone basiert.

Hyundai is launching Risc and DSP microcontrollers. The GSM30C2216/32 embedded microprocessors are for applications that handle digital and analogue signals such as DVDs, flash cards, digital cameras, PDAs and multimedia electronic systems.

Taipei, 5 June: Hyperstone AG of Konstanz, Germany and Holy Stone Ent. Co. Ltd, of Taipei, Taiwan have today signed a strategic agreement for Holy Stone to market and distribute Hyperstone’s RISC/DSP processor architecture and semiconductor products in the Asia/Pacific region.

Powerful 32bit design based on unique integrated RISC/DSP core architecture from Hyperstone

October 1, 1999 - Smart Network Devices and hyperstone electronics have entered into a wide-ranging cooperation on October 1, 1999. Smart Network Devices (SND) will be the main supplier of network operating software for hyperstone CPUs to customers using hyperstone RISC/DSP processors.

The camera company Agfa recently announced a digital megapixel camera powered by a hyperstone RISC/DSP processor.

Bonn / Konstanz, March 10, 1999
BERGDATA AG (Bonn, Germany) and hyperstone electronics have entered into a broad agreement to cooperate in the development and marketing of embedded biometric identification (ID) systems.

Huge Success for First Hyperstone Conference
Hyperstone welcomed guests from all over the world to the first hyperstone product conference and exhibition in Konstanz, Germany on December 2nd, 1997.

New Silicon Breaks the 200 MIPS/Watt Barrier
hyperstone electronics recently launched new silicon of its E1-32 RISC/DSP processor. The new silicon is a first product of the cooperation between hyperstone electronics and the licensee LG Semicon (South Korea).