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News Release from: Mentor Graphics UK | Subject: T1/E1 Framer and T1 Deframer cores
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 February 2001
Mentor and Xilinx have cores for
communications
Mentor Graphics and Xilinx have released two high-level IP products to accelerate the design cycle of high-density FPGAs in communications applications.
Mentor Graphics and Xilinx have released two high-level IP products to accelerate the design cycle of high-density FPGAs in communications applications The T1/E1 Framer and T1 Deframer cores will be sold and supported by Xilinx as LogiCORE products and by the Mentor Graphics Inventra IP division
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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These new cores are optimised for Xilinx FPGAs and will form the backbone for a variety of communications applications.
The two cores are the first products to result from an OEM agreement between Xilinx and Mentor Graphics forged in October 2000, with the goal to accelerate design of new telecomms and networking systems.
"The T1/E1 cores target data and voice processing in telecomms and networking for small office PBXs and local area networks, connecting to wireless base stations as well as HDSL2 pair-gain applications", said Babak Hedayati, director of marketing and business development for the Xilinx IP Solutions Division.
"These cores are the latest addition to the extensive Xilinx library of IP available on the Xilinx IP Center".
The T1/E1 cores are fully compliant with CCITT Recommendation G.704 (G.706, G.732, G.733) and support multiple frame structures.
"Our mutual web-based delivery models makes it easy for systems designers to readily access two critical cores for their network application designs", said Pierre Bricaud, director of marketing for the Inventra IP division of Mentor Graphics.
The new cores operate with the Xilinx Virtex, Virtex-E and Spartan-II families of FPGAs.
The new LogiCORE products are downloadable over the Internet from the Xilinx IP Center at www.xilinx.com/ipcenter, and used in conjunction with the Xilinx CORE Generator system to smoothly implement the cores into the Xilinx design flow.
The cores will also be sold and supported by the Mentor Graphics Inventra IP division at www.mentor.com/inventra.
The T1/E1 Framer and T1 Deframer cores are available now.
Xilinx LogiCORE pricing for each core is $5000.
Licensing information and instructions for downloading the cores and information on all Xilinx LogiCORE products can be found at the Xilinx IP Center.
The Inventra cores, also priced at $5000 each, can be licensed online or from any local Mentor Graphics account manager.
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