ECS has a great deal of embedded project experience.  We have experience with the R3000^®, R4000^® and R5000^® families from several vendors.  Most of our experience is with the R4000 series, although we are seeing a growing interest in the R5000 processors. 

Our MIPS projects include: 

• porting RTOS's
• from the R3000 family to the R4000 family
• from the 68k to the R4000 and R5000 families
• from the PowerPC to the R4000 and R5000 families
• BSPs for boards designed around the R4300, R4600 and R4700 processors
•  a transparent inter-processor communications protocol between MIPS-based communications boards

Our experience with embedded systems and the MIPS architecture can help you get to market more quickly.

Whether you're designing a high-end communications board around the newest MIPS processor or a smaller consumer device with an integrated MIPS core, we can work with you on a solution. 

MIPS Technical Tidbits 

Familiar with other processor families, but curious about MIPS?  Or maybe you've used a MIPS processor, but always wondered why something is done a certain way? 

You might be interested in some technical information on programming the MIPS family processors.
 

Interested in even more details about the MIPS3k architecture, the MIPS4k architecture, or the MIPS5k architecture? You'll find all sorts of details in EDN's 26th Annual Microprocessor/Microcontroller Directory.  
 

The bottom line 

Contact us today to start working together on a MIPS solution for your product(s).

The MIPS family of processors can be found in everything from handheld PCs & the latest video game consoles to ultra-high bandwidth networking and telecommunications equipment.  

MIPS Technologies, Inc. designs and licenses the intellectual property at the heart of MIPS CPUs.  Several semiconductor manufacturers have licensed MIPS core technology and integrated it into their own microprocessors.    

The MIPS family of processors 

There are currently 5 revisions of the MIPS Instruction Set Architecture (ISA),  MIPS I^TM through MIPS V.^TM  There are also extensions for multimedia (MDMX^TM) and a compressed instruction set (MIPS₁₆^TM). 

The 5 ISA's are realized across several families of processors.  The R3000, R4000 and R5000 are the most common in embedded systems. 

The R3000 family is a pure 32-bit family that implements the MIPS I ISA. 

The R4000 family are 64-bit processors that implement the MIPS III ISA.  Some of the variants include the R4200, R4300, R4400, R4600 and R4700 series. 

The R5000 family processors implement MIPS IV and a dual-issue pipeline that allows FPU operations to be executed in parallel with non-floating point instructions. 

Other families include the older R2000 (MIPS I) and R6000 (MIPS II) series, the new RM7000 processor from QED, Inc., and Silicon Graphics'  R8000 and R10000 processors.  
 

MIPS Links 

MIPS Technologies Inc. 
MIPS Licensees 
Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI)