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News Release from: Tundra Semiconductor | Subject: RapidIO Endpoint IP
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 March 2007
System developers to get RapidIO IP for
a price
System interconnect specialist is now developing RapidIO Endpoint IP for license.
Tundra Semiconductor the leader in System Interconnect, is now developing RapidIO Endpoint IP for license RapidIO offers a high-performance, packet-oriented interconnect protocol and Tundra's RapidIO IP offers designers low risk and accelerated time to market
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Tundra's RapidIO offering is now expanded as its family of industry-leading switches and first-to-market development platforms are accompanied by Endpoint IP.
Customers can access a full service RapidIO solution from Tundra.
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A new hardware interoperability platform (HIP) motherboard will allow designers to evaluate RapidIO system interconnect devices from Tundra Semiconductor.
Customers are requesting access to Tundra's RapidIO intellectual property as they build products based on Tundra's leading family of RapidIO switches.
Tundra's RapidIO Endpoint IP will, therefore, be made commercially available to system developers, semiconductor manufacturers, FPGA and ASIC vendors and their customers.
The RapidIO Endpoint IP will be used to create custom and standard product functions that further enlarge the RapidIO product ecosystem.
"We believe Tundra's RapidIO Endpoint IP license will enable base station OEMs to speed their time to market", says Travis Scheckel, TI's RapidIO Development Manager and Chair of the RapidIO Technical Working Group.
"RapidIO continues to gain momentum in the wireless infrastructure marketplace, and its value will become more critical as data-intensive applications proliferate".
Tundra's RapidIO switches and IP, coupled with TI's performance-leading family of optimised DSPs, will continue to drive 3G applications and beyond.
Through Tundra's experienced design services division, Silicon Logic Engineering (SLE), the logic layer of the Serial RapidIO Endpoint IP can be configured to meet individual customer's specific requirements.
B using SLE design services, customers can save their internal resources for their own proprietary design work.
Another significant advantage to using Tundra's RapidIO IP is the guaranteed interoperability that the licensed IP will offer.
Tundra IP has been proven to interoperate with multiple vendor DSPs, FPGAs, and ASICs.
Designers eliminate risk by adopting Tundra's Serial RapidIO switches, and RapidIO IP which has been licensed from Tundra.
"Once again Tundra has answered an ecosystem need and provided an innovative solution to meet customer requirements", says Tom Cox, Executive Director RapidIO Trade Association.
The Endpoint IP enables high performance Serial RapidIO system interconnect between processors, bridges, remote memories, customer defined endpoint devices and Tundra RapidIO switches.
The IP is compliant with RapidIO Interconnect Specification (Revision1.3) and supports up to 10Gbit/s payload.
Fully synthesisable, the IP is designed to be combined with technology specific SerDes on multiple process technologies.
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