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Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Tundra Semiconductor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 September 2002
Tundra and Wintegra aim for joint
integration
Tundra Semiconductor and Wintegra are aiming to create greater business opportunities for Wintegra's WinPath access packet processor and the Tundra PowerSpan II PowerPC-to-PCIbus switch.
Tundra Semiconductor and Wintegra are aiming to create greater business opportunities for Wintegra's WinPath access packet processor and the Tundra PowerSpan II PowerPC-to-PCIbus switch The collaboration will facilitate product integration, allowing designers to reduce overall component count and increase system performance while delivering and managing faster data traffic
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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WinPath is a single-chip access packet processor used by networking and communications equipment vendors worldwide in devices such as basestations, media gateways, access multiplexers and VoP switches, both wireless and wireline; while the Tundra PowerSpan II is an advanced PCIbus switch for devices based on the PowerPC bus.
When used in the dual-PCI configuration (one PowerPC device and two PCIbus segments), the PowerSpan II bus switch allows data to pass from port to port, working as a bridge between the PCI interfaces without impacting with system performance.
WinPath supports over 18 various networking and telephony protocols, providing a highly integrated network processing solution.
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Specific equipment in which these two products would be used together are ADSL concentrators, CDMA basestations, VoIP gateways, exchange carrier switching equipment, VPN equipment or any other systems that require WinPath to be interfaced to a PCIbus.
"Because of the PowerPC compatible bus on the WinPath access processor, customers can use any external PowerPC-bus compatible device to directly connect to WinPath.
One of the industry's most popular devices of this type is the PowerSpan II to allow WinPath to connect to PCI", said Robert O'Dell, Wintegra VP of Marketing.
"It is important to our customers that we are able to recommend this proven Tundra product that will shorten their development cycles.
We're looking forward to many additional design wins for WinPath and PowerSpan II".
The first public announcement of two communications components being designed in together came last month in an announcement by Interphase Corporation of its iNAV 4000.
The iNAV 4000 is the industry's first PICMG 2.16 Gigabit Ethernet CompactPCI Packet Switching Backplane (CPSB) compliant card.
"The WinPath processor family offers customers a revolutionary approach to handling multiple communication protocols which addresses the current and future networking requirements of designers", said Ian McGill, Tundra VP of Marketing.
"The Tundra PowerSpan II provides off-the-shelf, PCI connectivity which allows access to a wide array of PCI-based networking peripherals.
The on-going collaboration with Wintegra allows us to provide a complete system level solution for our mutual customers".
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