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8051 Editors' Choice Companies

Editors' Short List What companies are (still) active in the 8051 marketplace? Beyond the major chip companies, we want to help practical embedded systems designers identify the most promising companies - hardware, software, and services that can help them with their 8051 designs. Here are our "editors' shortlist" winners for the 8051:

company: IAR Systems
IAR Systems provides a range of development tools for embedded systems: integrated development environments (IDE) with C/C++ compilers and debuggers, development kits, hardware debug probes and state machine design tools. The product line supports 8051, ARM, AVR, MSP430 and many other 8-, 16-, and 32-bit MCUs from different chip manufacturers. [PowerPAC RTOS for ARM, ColdFire, MSP430]

company: Actel Corporation
Actel is the leader in low-power and mixed-signal FPGAs, offering the most comprehensive portfolio of system and power management solutions. Power Matters. Learn more at www.actel.com. [Cores: 8051, ARM, CORTEX-M1, SPARC]

company: Raisonance
Raisonance designs and sells a variety of Microprocessor Development Systems, including Compilers, Simulators, High Level Language Debuggers, Real Time Operating Systems, Integrated Development Environment, Evaluation Boards and In-Circuit Debuggers & Programmers for common market architectures such as 8051, uPSD, ST7, STR7, STR9, ST6, Smart Card products and also tools for Soc.

company: CAST, Inc.
IP THAT WORKS. See why hundreds of customers trust CAST IP in their FPGA and ASIC systems. With 16 years of development and support experience and 100 cores, we can help you pick the right IP and ensure you succeed with it. Our proven products include the fastest and smallest 8051s, highest-quality video and image compression, solid state memory controllers, interfaces, peripherals, encryption, AMBA platforms, reference designs, and more.

company: Frontline Electronics
In Circuit Emulators. Topview ICE for 8051 Devices. TMS320VC5416 Products. TMS320VC5416 Diamond Board. Gang Programmers. Topview Programmer G. Device Programmers. Topview Device Programmers. World’s Advanced Trainers for Microcontroller/Microprocessors. Next Generation Platinum Trainers. ARM Products. ARM Proto Boards. Embedded Control Solutions. 8031 Microcontroller. Renesas Microcontrollers. DSP...

company: Silicon Laboratories
High-performance, analog-intensive mixed-signal integrated circuits for a broad range of applications. Silicon Labs' product portfolio includes high-performance MCUs, broadcast audio solutions, ISOmodem(r) embedded modems, subscriber line interface circuits, silicon direct access arrangements, satellite set-top box receivers, voice codecs, VCXOs and XOs, SiPHY(r) transceivers, clock and data recovery ICs and precision clock ICs. [8051]

company: Evatronix S.A.
Develops electronic virtual components (IP cores) along with complementary software and supporting development environments. and offers electronic design services. The company is also a leading value added reseller of CAD & EDA systems in Poland. Evatronix IP cores are available worldwide through the sales channels of its strategic distribution partner CAST, Inc. (New Jersey, USA). [8051, USB, Embedded Ethernet, FireWire 1394]

company: Tekmos
Specializing in obsolescence solutions. If your semiconductor is being end-of-lifed by the original manufacturer, or will be soon, then Tekmos can be of assistance. Our complete product line is: 8051 Microcontrollers - Tekmos has developed an 8051 core that can be used to replace many variations of the 8051 microcontroller. Some of the 8051s that we support are the NXP S87C751/S83C751, [FPGA, ASIC]

company: Signum Systems Corp.
Signum Systems manufactures and sells development tools, in-circuit emulators (ICE), JTAG In-Circuit Debuggers (ICD). SW debuggers and C compilers for the embedded market. Supported processors include: ARM7, ARM9, ARM11, MPcore, Cortex-M3/R4/A8/A9, OMAP, DaVinci, Texas Instruments TMS320 DSPs, 8051 and 80186. Most emulators feature real-time trace and support Embedded Trace Macrocell (ETM) and Embedded Trace Buffer (ETB).

company: Maxim
High Performance Microcontrollers for Mixed-Signal Applications, Secure, Network and 8051 Drop-ins. MAXQ: 16-bit Mixed Signal Microcontrollers. Secure: Highest level of security for data-sensitive and financial transaction applications. Networked: Access to a wide variety of networks including Ethernet and CAN. 8051 Drop-ins: Up to 33 times the performance of the original 8051.

company: e8051 Cores
The low-cost e8051 is the fastest available 8051/8052 embedded microcontroller core for ASICs and FPGAs, achieving peak processing speeds of over 300 Mips in ASICs and over 150 Mips in FPGAs (equivalent to 3.6 GHz/1.8 GHz clock rates in a conventional 8051!) The e8051 core has the following features: 100% instruction set compatible with standard 8051 and 8052 microcontrollers, Low gate count/cell count , low power consumption, etc.

company: Phyton, Inc. Microsystems and Development Tools
Phyton produces high-performance development tools for embedded microcontrollers that include in-circuit and JTAG emulators, compilers and universal programmers. The tools are integrated in affordable Project IDEs with embedded editors, macro assemblers and project management tools. Among the supported microcontroller families are ARM, 8051, PICmicro, MAXQ, MSP430, 80196, Sensory, and XEMICS.

company: Rigel Corporation
RIGEL CORPORATION manufactures embedded controllers for the 8051, ARM7, C166/C167, and ST10 processors. A complete line of integrated hardware, software, and textbooks are available for embedded Ethernet, industrial control, evaluation, education, and research and development.

company: IPextreme
Brings high-value intellectual property (IP) from large semiconductor companies to consumer and automotive System-on-Chip (SOC) designers worldwide. These products are silicon-proven to minimize design risk and provided in a process independent and EDA neutral format, for easy use by the broadest range of customers. Products offered: AMBA Peripheral Library, Bluetooth Baseband and software, CR-16, ColdFire Processor, FlexRay, 8051, etc.

Express Logic develops, markets and supports the ThreadX® real-time operating system (RTOS), BenchX® Eclipse-based IDE, TraceX® graphical event analysis program, and StackX™ stack size analyzer for embedded applications. ThreadX is a royalty-free, full source code, small-footprint, low-overhead RTOS that is extremely easy to learn and use. ThreadX is one of the most widely deployed RTOS products in the world, with over 700 million products based on ThreadX.