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News Release from: Force Computers | Subject: IOP310 and IXP1250 technology demonstrators
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 05 March 2002
Technology demonstrators for tailor-made
boards
Force Computers has added two more technology demonstrators to its Tailor Made technology portfolio.
Force Computers has added two more technology demonstrators to its Tailor Made technology portfolio These additions to the existing broad set of technology offerings reinforce Force's leadership in creating and deploying embedded solutions to provide the wide range of capabilities demanded by tomorrow's successful products
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Dec 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Force Tailor Made solutions allow customers to create cost-effective products with the exact features and functionality required.
Because they are often based on leading-edge technology demonstration platforms already developed and tested by Force, the time from concept to fully-functional product can be greatly reduced.
"The Xscale and IXP technology building blocks again demonstrate our ability to achieve technology leadership across a broad range of different processor architectures, and will enable us to address new market segments", said Gerhard Mayr, corporate director of business development of Force's Boards Business Unit.
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"Our agnostic view on processor architectures, combined with our Tailor Made Custom Solutions experience, helps our customers to get the best solution for their applications, using the right processing core to achieve their target cost".
Intel's Xscale devices are RISC processors based on the ARM v5TE Architecture.
They are second-generation versions of Intel's StrongARM devices and offer the same industry-leading combination of ultra-low power consumption with very high performance.
Targeted at environments ranging from handheld devices to internet infrastructure, they are ideal candidates for voice, secure data and audio/video streaming applications.
The Force technology demonstrator design is based on an Intel IOP310 I/O processor chipset comprising the 80200 processor and the 80312 I/O companion chip.
This chipset is targeted at price/performance leadership in intelligent RAID applications, internet storage applications (SCSI, Fibre Channel, SAN), networking (LAN, ATM, Ethernet, switches, routers), workstations, and various embedded applications, which require high-performance I/O subsystems.
The Force design incorporates a number of I/O interface types, including Ethernet switch ports, V.90 modem, USB, PCMCIA, serial ports and expansion PCI slots to demonstrate and test functionality.
The Intel IXP1200 network processor combines the best attributes of a network ASIC with the flexibility, performance and scalability of a programmable embedded processor.
It integrates six multithreaded micro engines and the StrongARM processor core at 167, 200 or 233MHz.
It is specifically designed for network control tasks, such as wire-speed switching or routing of packets or cells in real time.
This network processor forms part of the Intel Internet Exchange Architecture (Intel IXA), a comprehensive framework of networking and communication building blocks that enables fast deployment of intelligent networks.
The Force technology demonstrator combines dual IXP1250 processors together with several Gigabit Ethernet ports and switches in a 6U cPCI form-factor.
The board supports the Compact Packet Switching Backplane standard (cPSB), also known as PICMG 2.16, and system management PICMG 2.9.
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