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News Release from: MIPS Technologies | Subject: MIPS32 4KEc core
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 June 2004
Core powers up Infineon's home gateway
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Infineon Technologies, a MIPS Technologies licensee since 2000 and a leading innovator within the telecommunications access market, has taken a licence for the MIPS32 4KEc core.
Infineon Technologies, a MIPS Technologies licensee since 2000 and a leading innovator within the telecommunications access market, has taken a licence for the MIPS32 4KEc core With it, Infineon has developed an innovative ADSL2/2+ CPE product called Amazon that is ideally suited for triple-play applications in which voice, video and data services are provided through a single-box home gateway
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new Amazon single-chip, ADSL2/2+ CPE solution supports wire-speed data throughput from the wide-area network (WAN) to the local area network (LAN).
In addition to the 235MHz 4KEc core, Amazon has a powerful ADSL2/2+ engine, analogue front end, line driver, and AAL5 hardware accelerator.
Amazon completes Infineon's end-to-end ADSL2/2+ product portfolio.
Availability of Amazon is planned for the third quarter of 2004.
The benefits of developing on an industry-standard architecture, especially one with significant market share in the communications space and a large software base and robust development and debugging environment, contributed to Infineon's choice of the 4KEc core.
Improved power management techniques and code compression, along with the vectored interrupts which speed the response time of the interrupt service routines, were also contributing factors.
"The 4KEc core met the robust performance and power management requirements necessary to make Amazon a high-performance, competitive, single-chip solution", said Alessandro Norscia, Director of Marketing for Broadband CPE at Infineon Technologies North America Corp.
"With Amazon, Infineon completes its end-to-end ADSL2/2+ product portfolio and extends its reach into the rapidly growing home networking and SOHO networking markets, further strengthening our leadership position in the telecommunications access market".
"Infineon's continued endorsement of the MIPS architecture, demonstrated by their recent use of the 4KEc core in Amazon, speaks volumes and we are pleased that their portfolio of innovative, MIPS-based solutions continues to expand", said Jack Browne, Vice President of Worldwide Sales at MIPS Technologies.
"By utilising the 4KEc core, Infineon leverages the over $100 million worth of software, development tools and networking middleware already supporting the MIPS architecture".
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