Tri Core

http://www.infineon.com/tricore/

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Infineon Technologies designs, produces and sells semiconductors, the microchips which have enabled the information age, and have led to a vast increase in the speed, portability and capabilities of computers and a myriad other electronic devices. Infineon is active in providing application-oriented semiconductor solutions for use in sectors such as speech and data communications, peripherals, wireless communications, automotive and industrial electronics, security and chip cards as well as memory products.

TriCore is the first single­core 32­bit MCU­DSP architecture optimized for real-time embedded systems. Developed by a team with over 300 collective years of processor experience, TriCore is an innovative, award winning architectural solution which truly unifies the best of three worlds ­ real­time capabilities of microcontrollers, computational power of DSPs, and the price/performance benefits of RISC load­store architectures.