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News Release from: Tundra Semiconductor | Subject: Tsi578 Serial RapidIO Switch
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 09 March 2007
Rapid IO switch links DSPs to
board-level designs
Rapid IO switch will work properly with TI DSP semicustom chips that go into embedded applications.
Tundra Semiconductor, a specialist in system interconnect, has announced that its Tsi578 Serial RapidIO Switch can operate with Texas Instruments recently announced TMS320TCI6487 and TMS320TCI6488 wireless infrastructure optimised DSPs Successful tests proved that Tundra's third-generation Serial RapidIO switch, with multicast capability, and Texas Instrument's 3-core, 3GHz DSPs can be deployed to develop DSP clusters, aggregated with Serial RapidIO switching
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Mar 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Some of our wireless infrastructure customers have begun designing this high performance combination of industry-leading products, thereby enabling their next-generation RapidIO-based systems to meet the OFDM processing and Turbo Decode requirements", says Daniel Hoste, President and Chief Executive Officer at Tundra.
The Tundra/TI solution offers the power and configurability that designers of embedded solutions need to build reliable, high performance RapidIO-based systems for a wide range of scalable and high bandwidth applications.
"The TCI6487 and TCI6488 DSPs deliver maximum performance with a significantly reduced bill of materials", says Travis Scheckel, TI's RapidIO Development Manager and Chair of the RapidIO Technical Working Group.
Interoperability testing such as this effort gives base station manufacturers a measure of confidence that their solution will meet the carriers' needs in a timely fashion, while delivering higher performance, greater scalability and low power.
Texas Instruments announced availability of the TCI6487 in December 2006, the newest 3GHz-performing wireless infrastructure baseband product that boosts applications for GSM-based base stations while addressing new markets and requirements for WiMAX and TD-SCDMA.
TI also announced the availability of TCI6488 in February 2007 for the WCDMA market, integrating a receiver accelerator coprocessor.
Both products support three cores running at 1GHz each.
The TCI6487 and TCI6488 processors enable base station manufacturers to extend their existing designs while entering into new markets, requiring small form factor applications with an exceptional scaleable, flexible solution.
In February 2006, Tundra launched the Tsi578 Serial RapidIO Switch with multicast capability, responding to designers' requirement for low interconnect processing overhead, lowest power consumption, minimum latency as well as board layout with high signal integrity.
The Tsi578 supports the 1.3 RapidIO specification, and its broad feature set includes; field proven port flexibility which supports mixed port widths at up to 10Gbit/s data speeds, hardware multicast, supervised traffic flow for increased performance and fabric management, and enhanced SerDes for the lowest power switch solution available in the market today.
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