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News Release from: Tundra Semiconductor | Subject: Tsi578
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 August 2007
Serial RapidIO switch optimises DSP
performance
AdvancedTCA digital signal processing blade uses the Tsi578 as its Serial RapidIO interconnection for large-scale DSP aggregation.
RadiSys Corporation has designed the Tundra Tsi578 Serial RapidIO switch into its Promentum ATCA-9100 media resource module RadiSys recently launched the Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) digital signal processing (DSP) blade, which uses the Tsi578 as its Serial RapidIO interconnection for large-scale DSP aggregation
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Mar 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The Promentum ATCA-9100 responds to increasing customer demand for high performance solutions that address the growing number of applications requiring media processing", says V Prasannan, Senior Director ATCA Product Management, at RadiSys Corp.
"We selected Tundra's Tsi578 with multicast because this Serial RapidIO switch offered large-scale DSP aggregation capabilities with proven interoperability, lower power and minimal latency - all critical requirements for the highly intensive network applications that the ATCA-9100 targets".
"RadiSys selection of the Tsi578 demonstrates the advantages of high performance, hardware multicast, low power and latency that RapidIO enables in demanding communications applications", says Benny Chang, Chief Technology Officer, Tundra Semiconductor.
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"The Tsi578 optimises DSP performance by enabling the DSPs to focus on the media processing instead of interconnect termination".
"Like RadiSys, many of our Tier 1 customers are choosing Tundra Serial RapidIO switches for their wireless baseband, VoIP, media processing and media gateways solutions that require proven, DSP aggregation to gain superior processing performance", adds Chang.
In February 2006, Tundra launched the Tsi578, a 8/16-port Serial RapidIO switch with hardware multicast, responding to designers demand for low interconnect processing overhead, low power consumption, minimum latency as well as board layout with high signal integrity.
The Tsi578 supports the 1.3 RapidIO Specification and has been qualified by RIOLAB, the world's only independent RapidIO interoperability testing facility, as a Device Interoperability Level 3 (DIL-3) device.
With a broad feature set including; port flexibility with links independently configurable up to 10Gbit/s of datarate, supervised traffic flow for increased performance and fabric management, and enhanced serdes, the Tsi578 is the lowest power switch in the market today.
The Tsi578 is ideally suited for DSP, FPGA, ASIC and processor aggregation on line cards as well as backplane switching in a number of markets including wireless and wireline communications infrastructure, storage equipment, video processing and signal processing in aerospace avionics.
Telecommunications equipment and embedded computing manufacturers, both within system designs and in backplane architecture, are designing-in the Tsi578.
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