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News Release from: Tundra Semiconductor | Subject: Tsi109
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 19 April 2006
Host bridge for PowerPC enters full
production
The Tundra Tsi109 host bridge, billed as the industry's highest performing host bridge for PowerPC, is in full production.
The Tundra Tsi109 host bridge, billed as the industry's highest performing host bridge for PowerPC, is in full production With several host bridges in production and with numerous development platforms available, Tundra is fast becoming recognised as a market leader of high performance host bridges that meet the performance, power and design support expectations of customers designing with PowerPC
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Jan 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Tsi109's superior memory pipeline offers industry-leading memory bandwidth and an optimised PCI-X interface provides greater I/O to memory throughput.
In addition to 2.5W typical power dissipation, the Tsi109 supports DDR2 memory, which makes this host bridge the ideal choice for high-density power-sensitive applications.
The combination of the Tsi109's features, reliability and Tundra's world-class support provides designers with the benefits of greater overall system performance, reduced system design complexity, better integration and superior power efficiency.
Tundra's growing portfolio of host bridges for PowerPC delivers industry-leading system performance, power and cost for customers in the wireless and wireline networking, storage and embedded computing markets.
Tundra host bridges offer designers best system performance-per-watt as well as best system performance-per-dollar and are ideal companion chips for Freescale MPC74xx high performance processors.
The combination of the Tsi109's rich feature set, high reliability and Tundra's accessible design support has been well received by the industry's leading PowerPC product vendors such as VadaTech.
Recently announced, the VadaTech PMC710, a PrPMC (Processor PCI Mezzanine Card) and soon to be released in June 2006, the PMC712, a dual PrPMC ideal for use in communications, defence/aerospace, and industrial control applications combines Freescale's high performance 7448 PowerPC processor and the Tundra Tsi109 host bridge.
"Tundra is a leading system interconnect design partner and their host bridges are great additions to the PowerPC ecosystem, we are impressed with both the Tsi109 and the recent launch of the Tsi110", said Saeed Karamooz, President and CEO of VadaTech.
"Tundra's roadmap of host bridges with innovative features, high reliability combined with its proven design support is enabling our customers to optimise their systems for the industry's best performance and power".
The Tsi109 is available in both standard and lead-free packages for commercial and industrial temperatures.
Volume pricing for the Tsi109 is under US $75.
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