The S3C8454 single-chip microcontroller is fabricated using a highly advanced CMOS process. Its design is based on the powerful SAM87RC CPU core. Stop and Idle power-down modes were implemented to reduce power consumption. The size of the internal register file is logically expanded, increasing the addressable on-chip register space to 1040 bytes. A flexible yet sophisticated external interface is used to access up to 64-Kbytes of program and data memory. The S3C8454 is a versatile microcontroller that is ideal for use in a wide range of general-purpose applications such as CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drives. Using the SAM87RC modular design approach, the following peripherals were integrated with the SAM87RC CPU core: