Russian chip makers. Part 2.

This is the 2^nd part of review about Russian manufacturers of core military electronic components. The 1^st part is here.

'Elvees' – is a fab-less electronic chips design house holding the leading position in developing micro-chips, digital signal processors and controllers, for different military, space, domestic security and civilian applications. 

The peculiarity of the Elvees-designed microchips distinguishing them from many other competitors are – system-on-crystal (SOC) and net-on-crystal (NOC) high integrity design. There are both regular (scalar) and DSP (vector) processor cores with all needed controller in one chip. The DSP cores have high code-density (8-10 times higher than the main world competitors TI and ADI). So, extremely low specific power consumption (Watts per MFlOPS) and high performance is achieved. Up to 5 vector and scalar cores in one chip is used on current Elvees' production. This leads to very compact and light military communication devices (personally communicators, UAV DSP units and communication units) with long period of autonomic work. The enterprise has its own patented architecture platform 'MultiCore', broadly used on the Russian systems of intellectual vision, radars, sonars, digital TV, spacecrafts, prospective mobile communication standards.

The enterprise was created in 1990 from the famous NPO 'ELAS' design house successfully working in microchip development starting from 60^th. It was involved in a number of Soviet military and space programs, like 'Mir' space station control system 'Salyut'. 

The Elvees' makes chips for different military and dual-use. The characteristics of the most prominent of them are below further:

-         DSP microchips 'MultiCore' 1892BMxx serials for radars and other appls.

-         SDR receivers 'Multiflex'      1288XKxx

-         MultiCore constructor            1892XДxx

-         Multimedia processors 'Multicam' for IP-cams

-         Network chips 'Multicom' for wireless communication

-         Spacecraft's chips 'Multibort'

-         DSP chips for sonars 'Multisonar'

-         DSP chips for radio 'FlexRadio'

-         Other specialized systems-on-crystal.

 DSP-chip 1892BM3T (MC-12)

-         0.24 GFLOPs (float32)

-         Two cores: one  MIPS32 compatible RISC, one original DSP

-         DMA controller inbuilt

-         2 Mbit cache memory

-         80 MHz

-         250 nm process

-         Peak power: 1.2 Wt 

-         External temperature diapason : -60 - +85 C

DSP-chip 1892BM2Я (MC-24)

-         0.48 GFLOPs (float32)

-         Two cores: one  MIPS32 compatible RISC, one original DSP

-         DMA controller inbuilt

-         1.7 Mbit cache memory

-         80 MHz

-         250 nm process

-         Peak power: 1.5 Wt 

-         External temperature diapason : -60 - +85 C

DSP-chip for spacecrafts MC-24R 'Stalker'

-         0.6 GFLOPs (float32)

-         Two cores: one  MIPS32 compatible RISC, one original DSP

-         DMA controller inbuilt

-         2.5 Mbit cache memory

-         100 MHz

-         250 nm process

-         Peak power: 1.2 Wt 

-         External temperature diapason : -60 - +85 C

DSP-chips 1892BM4Я (MC-0226G) and 1892BM5Я (MC-0226)

-         1.2 GFLOPs (float32)

-         Three cores: one  MIPS32 compatible RISC, two original DSP

-         DMA controller inbuilt

-         2.7 Mbit cache memory

-         100 MHz

-         250 nm process

-         Peak power: 1.8 Wt 

-         External temperature diapason : -60 - +85 C

DSP-chips MC-0428 'MultiForce'

-         6 GFLOPs (float32)

-         5 cores: one  MIPS32 compatible RISC, 4 original DSP

-         DMA controller inbuilt

-         Videoport

-         6 Mbit cache memory

-         250 MHz

-         180 nm process

-         Peak power: 12 Wt , programmed regulation.

-         External temperature diapason : -60 - +85 C

Telecom chips MCom-01

-         32 GOPs (int16)

-         5 cores: one  MIPS32 compatible RISC, 4 original DSP

-         DMA controller inbuilt

-         Videoport, Ethernet

-         6 Mbit cache memory

-         333 MHz

-         130 nm process

-         Peak power: 5 Wt , programmed regulation.

Low energy consumption telecom chips MCom-02

-         1.68 GFLOPs, 4.48 GOPs (int16)

-         3 cores: one  MIPS32 compatible RISC, 2 original DSP

-         DMA controller inbuilt

-         3 Mbit cache memory

-         RISC 140 MHz, DSP 280 MHz

-         130 nm process

-         Peak power: 0.5 Wt , programmed regulation.

The prices are between $250 – 350. Source: OEM catalogue for 2008.