Advanced RISC Machines Ltd’s ARM RISC core has become a mainstay of VLSI Technology Inc’s application-specific product line, and it stars in a new single chip ISDN processor the San Jose company developed with a German company, Hagenuk Telekom GmbH of Kiel. The VLSI ISDN Processor is claimed to include all the circuitry required to implement a fully-featured ISDN terminal, and supports two 64Kbps and one 16Kbps channels, conforming to the Basic Rate Interface ISDN standard, with direct connections to European networks via an on-chip S0 four-wire interface. Other on-chip features include a pulse code modulation coder-decoder, pulse code modulation to signal processor interface, keyboard scanner, a D-channel data link controller, and a programmable memory interface.The part is in production now, but the company has not given any prices.
