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News Release from: Tundra Semiconductor | Subject: Tsi148
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 21 January 2004
Bridge chip adds new speed to VME
bandwidth
Tundra Semiconductor has successfully demonstrated its 2eSST technology using the Tundra Tsi148 VME-to-PCI/Xbus bridge.
Tundra Semiconductor has successfully demonstrated its 2eSST technology using the Tundra Tsi148 VME-to-PCI/Xbus bridge The Tsi148 implements the 2eSST protocol - the first significant VMEbus upgrade in a decade
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 9 Jan 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Bridge boosts PCI/X-to-VME bandwidth
The Tsi148 is the industry's leading PCI/X-to-VME bridge and the successful next-generation offering to the Tundra Universe II.
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GE Fanuc Embedded Systems has used the Tundra Tsi148 PCI/X-to-VME interconnect bridge in its recently launched the V7865 Intel dual core processor single board computer.
This new protocol opens the door for innovative products to be brought to market by systems manufacturers in the VME arena.
The 2eSST protocol allows streaming transactions and is capable of achieving backplane bandwidth up to 320Mbyte/s, an 8x increase over conventional VME.
This improvement is equivalent to 2.5Gbit/s, which enhances VMEbus ability to compete against next generation architectures.
The Tsi148 provides an increase in overall processing capability on legacy backplanes, while transparently enabling the high-performance distributed processing that new applications demand.
The Tsi148 bridges PCI or PCI-X on the local bus to the VMEbus.
It eliminates performance bottlenecks by operating as a peer with other devices on the local bus.
This can reduce the total number of bridges that VMEbus product vendors and end users - in the military, industrial automation, communications, storage and medical industries - require for bandwidth management on the host card.
On the system interface, the Tsi148 operates in master or slave mode for traditional VME, 2eVME and 2eSST transactions.
These protocols are industry standards developed by the VMEbus International Trade Association (VITA).
The Tsi148, a small and pin efficient device, complements Tundra's current VME product line that includes the Universe II VMEbus-to-PCIbus bridge and the SCV64 VME64-to-host processor bridge.
Early access partners will have access to Tsi148 alpha samples before general availability, which is scheduled for mid-summer 2004.
These partners will get a time-to-market advantage with integration support from Tundra.
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