FXI Technologies and Atmel Develop the World’s First Cross-Platform Mobile Phone Gaming Consoles in microSD Cards based on SoC

By pur, Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Category: IC, Chip, SoC, Mobile Devices, Module, SoM, Reference Design, Single Board Computer, SBC

The FXI SoC is the world’s first cross-platform mobile phone gaming consoles will be implemented in microSD cards, based on a system-on-chip (SoC) developed by FXI Technologies AS using Atmel’s 90nm SiliconCity Flexible Architecture. The FXI SoC integrates a 3-D graphics accelerator, interface logic and ARM9™ processor that can be seamlessly coupled to the manufacturer’s traditional Flash memory. Video games played on an FXI-enabled microSD Card allow card vendors and others to offer an extremely compelling gaming experience. MicroSD card-based gaming consoles will be marketed by SD card vendors and gaming content providers, among others, and can be used in virtually any device with a microSD slot, irrespective of its manufacturer or the native application processor. MicroSD cards with FXI’s die will include everything - the graphics accelerator, interface logic and high end ARM9 processor within the same microSD that stores gaming and other applications. It will vastly upgrade cell phone performance, while providing consumers a console-class gaming experience. Atmel’s SiliconCity Flexible Architecture has allowed us to build and package this functionality in a SoC with superior cost, power and performance advantages, but without the expense and long lead-times of a traditional custom ASIC. In addition, since Atmel’s SiliconCity Flexible Architecture uses a standardized CAP9 design flow, the CAP9 development kits can be used as a game development platform…

CAP9-Board

CAP9 Card
(Photo: Atmel)


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