NEW PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DEC. 9, 2009
Contact: Alan Lowne, President, Saelig Co. Inc.
Tel: (585) 385-1750
Saelig Introduces W7100 – New Embedded-Internet 8051 MCU
Hard-wired TCP/IP for stability,”instant-on”
Pittsford, NY, USA: Saelig Company, Inc. (Saelig) (www.saelig.com) announces the W7100, a unique one-chip solution which integrates an 8051-compatible microcontroller, 64KB SRAM and hardwired 10BaseT/100BaseTX + PHY for high performance and easy development. Targeted at designs for network-enabled instruments and dataloggers, the W7100 provides 32 Kbytes of internal buffer for data transmission/receiving, and supports half-duplex/full duplex, auto-negotiation and auto MDI/MDIX. It can also drive 6 network LEDs for Link, TX, RX, Collision, Speed and Duplex for status indication.
W7100 is an all-in-one embedded network solution featuring an industry-standard 8051 Processor, hardwired TCP/IP stack, 10/100 Ethernet PHY, 64K Bytes e-Flash memory, and 64K Bytes SRAM memory. WIZnet’s hardwired TCP/IP stack supports TCP, UDP, IPv4, ICMP, ARP, IGMP and PPPoE protocols, and has been used in many embedded products by manufacturers worldwide. W7100’s 8051 core is fully software-compatible with the familiar industry-standard 8051, but uses a pipelined architecture to speed up instruction execution by 4-5 times over standard 8051s.
W7100 is a compact, easy-to-implement platform for devices that need network connectivity. W7100’s 64-KB SRAM and 32-KB internal buffer make high-performance Internet applications possible. W7100’s design, which includes Ethernet MAC and PHY, is based on the market-proven W5100 IC, already widely used in industrial and multimedia products. By combining the latest hardwired TCP/IP chip with the benefits of an 8051 MCU core, the new W7100 provides a one-chip solution for quick-to-market, stable embedded Internet projects.
WIZnet’s hardwired TCP/IP technology has been adopted worldwide both in OS-less devices (esp. DVR, Remote Control) and OS-based applications (esp. STB, DTV). It provides higher performance and stability than any software internet connectivity solution. W7100 ‘offloads’ the Internet protocol, so users can design a wide range of products using simple SOCKET programming, without any knowledge about TCP/IP protocol. “TCP-offload” improves overall system performance, reduces cost, power and size, while also improving system robustness. W7100's fully hardwired TCP/IP algorithm guarantees connection speed, with on-the-fly processing architecture that is independent of the main processor. It also eliminates a main processor’s overhead by offloading network tasks, thus enhancing overall system performance - vital in multimedia devices.