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News Release from: LSI Europe | Subject: RapidChip Xtreme and Integrator
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 25 July 2003
More slices for platform ASIC family
LSI Logic Corp has unveiled two new families of prebuilt slices, the RapidChip Xtreme and the RapidChip Integrator.
LSI Logic Corp has unveiled two new families of prebuilt slices, the RapidChip Xtreme and the RapidChip Integrator The Xtreme family is optimised for high performance, high-bandwidth, market specific applications such as communications, storage and computing
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Although the Integrator family also targets these markets, it is also suited for uses in consumer electronics, industrial, security, instrumentation, imaging and others.
Both families use 0.11-micron process technology and build on the RapidChip value proposition, providing designers with fast, predictable and affordable custom logic solutions.
"With the announcement of two new RapidChip families, LSI Logic extends its leadership position in developing innovative products that deliver the fastest time to custom silicon at the lowest total cost", said Dr Handel Jones, founder and CEO of International Business Strategies (IBS).
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"The platform ASIC approach allows more design teams effective access to complex SoCs in submicron design for a broad range of applications in as little as six months.
RapidChip significantly expands the end-market opportunities that can be met by LSI Logic from a cost and performance perspective".
The Xtreme family aims to provide system and custom logic designers access to unprecedented levels of functionality and bandwidth at an affordable price.
The family is ideally suited to address the needs of the most demanding high I/O bandwidth applications by leveraging LSI Logic's proven in silicon and standards-compliant serdes technology.
The Xtreme family currently supports slices with 8, 16 or 32 GigaBlaze channels of 4.25Gbit/s serdes, compliant with standards such as 1 and 10Gbit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Serial ATA, Serial Attached SCSI and PCI Express.
Complementing GigaBlaze, the Xtreme family also includes support for LSI Logic's proven HyperPHY transceivers, at 155 to 3200Mbit/s per channel, enabling multiple OIF SPI4.2 and SFI4.1 link interfaces.
Additionally available to the designer is a choice of high-speed memory interfaces such as DDR, DDR2, RLDRAM2, FCRAM3 and QDR with widths up to 144 bits and up to 250MHz/500Mbit per channel.
All Xtreme slices use performance-optimised flip-chip packaging.
The Integrator family is engineered for mainstream logic applications with ASIC gate counts ranging from 2.9 to 9.8 million combined with on-chip RAM up to 5.3Mbit.
Integrator customers are able to migrate between slices using the same low-cost wirebond package while maintaining the same board layout.
With support for 200MHz and 400Mbit DDR memory interfaces, system designers are assured of ASIC design flexibility (greater than 25 levels of logic) with predictable layout turnaround times.
Across the Xtreme and Integrator families, designers can leverage the entire range of LSI Logic's CoreWare library in either soft/firm or prediffused forms.
In addition to the extensive range of high speed interfaces already mentioned, this library also includes processor cores such as the firm ARM7TDMI-S, ARM966E-S and the prediffused ARM926EJ-S, ARM1026EJ-S, ARM1136J-S and MIPS64 5Kf cores enabling up to 400MHz performance along with associated subsystems and peripherals.
One of the many benefits of RapidChip is to provide innovative, smaller companies access to ASIC technology and IP at lower development costs and lower risk.
This is opening up many new markets, enabling LSI Logic to engage with a new set of customers either directly or through distribution partners.
White Rock Networks is one such customer engaged and serviced through LSI Logic distribution partner, Arrow Electronics.
"We chose LSI Logic's RapidChip program over other solutions because it gave us the best combination of technology and pricing", said Lonnie Martin, founder and CEO of White Rock Networks.
"White Rock offers market-leading Sonet and DWDM (dense wave-division multiplexer) optical solutions that provide our carrier customers with best-of-breed price, performance, and functionality.
Our ASIC development initiatives, coupled with our unique product architecture, are major factors in enabling White Rock to meet its business goals.
We are pleased that LSI Logic and Arrow Electronics are our partners in this endeavour".
Three slices from the Xtreme family and four slices from the Integrator family are available for design now.
Pricing for the entry-level slice starts at $25.00 for 100,000 unit/year quantities in 2004.
Customer designs using the RapidChip Xtreme and Integrator families are already underway, with first silicon available within 60 days.
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