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News Release from: Pericom Semiconductor Corp | Subject: PI7C9X7952 etc
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 April 2008
Bridges control UARTs to accelerate
serial comms
Devices integrate a complete PCI Express interface bridge with a fully featured multiport, multiprotocol UART controller
Pericom Semiconductor has developed an industry first PCI Express SBridge (serial bridge) product family offering a complete one chip cost effective solution for the expanding CPU to UART I/O market Moxa is the first customer to incorporate Pericom's new UART offering
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 Jun 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new product family integrates a complete PCI Express interface bridge with a fully featured multiport, multiprotocol UART controller, and is targeted to volume industrial and building control, point of sale, instrumentation, PDA and GPS system I/O applications.
"The UART controller market TAM is expected to grow to over 60 million ports by the end of 2008", according to Jag Bolaria, Senior Analyst at semiconductor market research firm The Linley Group.
"Pericom is well positioned to capitalise on this growth with leading edge single chip solutions required by next generation embedded control systems".
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"Pericom's one chip UART solutions give Moxa the performance, flexibility, footprint and cost savings we require to deliver the most competitive industrial and commercial platforms to our customers", says Sureen Lee, Director of HA Strategic Business Unit for Moxa.
"Pericom is pleased to add these three new advanced performance SBridge products to our industry leading variety of PCI Express product functions", says Bill Weir, Pericom's Senior Marketing Director for Connect Products.
"UART market growth is fueled by accelerated adoption of embedded UART I/O in building control systems for HVAC, environmental, emergency, and communications control to host CPU applications".
"We have completed our beta testing and now have design wins with Tier 1 embedded controller providers, such as Moxa".
The Pericom SBridge PCIe to UART family consists of three different UART port count configurations: two ports (PI7C9X7952), four ports (PI7C9X7954) and eight ports (PI7C9X7958).
The product family is specifically designed for low power consumption and small package size, optimised PCB layout, fully meets the requirements of the latest PCI-SIG PCIe 1.1 and PCI 1.2 specifications, and is listed on the PCISIG certification list.
The complete one-chip PCIe to high-performance UART devices feature: high performance 16C950 (RS232) UART ports; backward compatibility with 16C550/650/750/850 software; support for baud rates to 62.5Mbit/s (sync mode); RoHS compliant and small footprint packages (PQFP and BGA); a customer programmable EEPROM port for ultimate flexibility; and software drivers for both Windows and Linux.
Samples, eval board and OS driver development kits are available now, with production quantities available in May, 2008.
OEM retail pricing in 10,000-unit quantities are US $5.30, $6.80 and $9.50, respectively for the two-, four- and eight-port devices.
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