Announcements - Page 3

  • TMS320C6455 DSP enables a robust Serial RapidIO ecosystem driving higher bandwidth interconnect: Texas Instruments Incorporated announced the immediate availability of a TMS320C6455 digital signal processor (DSP) evaluation module (EVM) and a TMS320C6455 DSP starter kit (DSK), both with a Serial RapidIO bus interface. The C6455 DSP, based on the TMS320C64x+(TM) DSP core and at the heart of the EVM and DSK, is now sampling, bringing together TI's highest performing DSP architecture with Serial RapidIO support to boost performance and I/O bandwidth in high-end and multi-channel applications such as video and voice transcoding, videoconferencing servers, high-definition (HD) video encoding and mixer systems, wireless base station transceivers, HD radio, medical imaging, and photo labs and printing. http://www.ti.com/c6455pr

  • Thales announces rugged 6U VME clone: Thales is producing a fully rugged version of the current generation PowerPC blade server called the PowerNode5. PowerNode5 is a rugged 6U VME clone of the IBM JS20 blade design. This new product provides a very high level of performance with a full binary compatibility with IBM JS20 blades servers, in a form factor fully adapted to any of today's embedded systems requirements, said the company. The PowerNode5 features an on-board serial RapidIO switch fabric that allows the end-user to build a powerful and scalable signal processing calculator based on the PowerNode5 building block as well as two Gigabit Ethernet ports.
    http://www.thalesgroup.com/home/home/
  • Thales bundles PowerNode 3 with PMC-RIO card: Thales Computers introduced a serial RapidIO distributed switch solution designed for VME systems bundling the outstanding performance of PowerNode3 with a powerful and reliable switch fabric solution to allow the end-user the ability to interconnect computing nodes all together inside a signal processing calculator. The Serial RapidIO technology reduces pin counts while staying full duplex and provides a low latency packet-based interconnect data push. Additionally, the technology offers a very high degree of error management and provides a state-of-the-art architecture for reporting, and recovering from, transmission errors. The PMC-RIO mezzanine boasts its own distributed switch that prevents any system single point of failures, while Thales' Serial RapidIO switch fabric allows an aggregate throughput of up to 1.6GBps due to the 400MBps sustained link bandwidth (peer to peer).
    http://www.thalesgroup.com/home/home/
  • RapidIO Trade Association steering committee communicate support for the RIOLAB initiative: Members of the RapidIO Trade Association steering committee including Altera, Ericsson, Freescale Semiconductor, Lucent Technologies, Mercury Computer Systems, Texas Instruments, Xilinx, and others immediately communicated their support for the RIOLAB initiative as a critical milestone in furthering deployment of RapidIO-based products.
    http://www.tundra.com/NewsRoom/PressReleases/2006/pr_02_28b_06.cfm
  • Tundra launches third-generation Serial RapidIO® Switch with high-performance multicast capability for next-generation wireless and video infrastructure platforms: Highly scalable, the Tsi578TM switch advances the integration of Serial RapidIO in ATCA® and MicroTCATM architectures. The Tundra Tsi578 Serial RapidIO Switch, a high-performance switch with patent-pending technology, delivers the performance, power and configurability that designers of embedded designs need to build reliable, high-performance RapidIO-based systems for a wide range of applications such as wireless base stations and video infrastructure.
    http://www.tundra.com/NewsRoom/PressReleases/2006/pr_02_28_06.cfm
  • Tundra Semiconductor creates world's first RapidIO® interoperability lab, RIOLAB™ to address component manufactures' and OEMs' need to accelerate next-generation RapidIO products to market: Tundra Semiconductor Corporation announced that the Company has launched the world's first RapidIO Interoperability Lab (RIOLAB™) for interoperability and specification compliance testing. Leveraging its depth of expertise, technology leadership, and commitment to drive the commercialization of RapidIO technology, Tundra has served as a de facto test facility for members of the RapidIO ecosystem and OEMs alike, resulting in the development of proven test scripts and making the formalization of the RIOLAB a natural evolution.
    http://www.tundra.com/NewsRoom/PressReleases/2006/pr_02_28a_06.cfm
  • Customers design RapidIO®-Based systems using Tundra's high performance Serial RapidIO switch: Tundra Tsi568ATM, the industry's first Serial RapidIO switch, is in full production. With more than one RapidIO switch in production and development platforms available, Tundra is recognized as a market leader and continues to advance RapidIO System Interconnect. Tundra is committed to bringing high performance RapidIO products to market to meet the rapidly growing demand from customers now designing with the RapidIO technology.
    http://www.tundra.com/NewsRoom/PressReleases/2006/pr_02_22_06.cfm
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