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News Release from: LSI Europe | Subject: RapidChip
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 July 2004
Platform ASIC speeds powerline comms IC
to market
Spidcom Technologies has selected the LSI Logic RapidChip platform ASIC for use in its SPC200 powerline physical layer processor.
Spidcom Technologies has selected the LSI Logic RapidChip platform ASIC for use in its SPC200 powerline physical layer processor By making use of a user-configurable RapidChip slice and its ARM926 diffused processor, Spidcom now offers its customers the world's highest performance chip with a datarate of over 200Mbit/s for use in powerline communications (PLC)
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 9 Sep 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Spidcom's SPC200 allows manufacturers who integrate the chip into their products the most efficient, flexible solution to connect network equipment, Internet appliances or any type of computer or peripheral through copper power lines at high-speed.
"We carefully selected LSI Logic's RapidChip platform in order to reduce time-to-market for our SPC200 powerline physical layer processor", said Radomir Jovanovic, President and Chief Executive of Spidcom.
"With its efficient high performance and pre-verified ARM and associated embedded memories, RapidChip allowed us to respect a very tight schedule leveraging complex system on a chip advantages".
"Thanks to LSI Logic, SPC200 is the first chip in the world to achieve 224Mbit/s performance in PLC devices".
Spidcom addresses Internet access as well as professional and private network markets with its patented flexible technology which makes it possible to support services such as Internet access, voice over IP, video on demand, LAN connections, multimedia networks and more over main power lines.
"It is exciting to be working with Spidcom as a key partner in PLC applications", said Ronnie Vasishta, Vice President, Technology Marketing, LSI Logic Corp.
"With RapidChip, LSI Logic was able to assist Spidcom in getting to market with its first generation chip while other players are still working on prototypes".
"By having ready access to pre-verified high performance ARM processors with the ability to quickly integrate extensive logic and memory, Spidcom designers started much further ahead in the design process and achieved aggressive performance and time-to-market goals".
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