In the News

During the past three months, The RapidIO Trade Association, its members and their products continue to be sought after news in the industry.

  • Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL, FSL.B) has introduced its third-generation multicore DSP based on next-generation SC3400 StarCore technology. The new MSC8144 DSP is engineered to deliver leading-edge performance, reduce system costs and significantly increase channel densities for next-generation wireline and wireless infrastructure applications providing voice, video and data services.
  • IDT (Integrated Device Technology, Inc.; NASDAQ: IDTI) announced the industry's only off-the-shelf pre-processing switch (PPS) for digital signal processor (DSP) clusters. Optimized for wireless baseband processing applications and utilizing the Serial RapidIO interconnect, the IDT PPS is an advanced semiconductor solution integrating an innovative suite of byte- and packet-level manipulation capabilities designed to offload DSPs of specific bandwidth-intensive tasks. This offload can accelerate each DSP within a cluster by up to 20 percent, thereby enabling the processors to focus on other compute-intensive functions related to meeting the requirements of next-generation wireless infrastructure design. The PPS is the first in a series of forthcoming IDT products designed to offer a complete data-acceleration solution for DSPs and other key components in wireless baseband processing applications, allowing customers to create scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solutions.
  • Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY - News) announced a family of starter kits for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) developers, at the Military Embedded Electronics and Computing Conference (MEECC) in Long Beach, CA. Mercury also announced details and availability of the first starter kit in the series, which is based on its performance-leading PowerStream 6100 series RapidIO VXS multicomputer.
  • Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY) announced the availability of its reconfigurable computing variant of the Mercury PowerStream® 7000 multicomputer. The PowerStream 7000 FCN (FPGA Compute Node) can incorporate up to 69 Xilinx® seven-million-gate field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) connected by a RapidIO switch fabric, enabling twice the processing performance in the same system footprint.
  • Tundra Semiconductor Corporation (TSX: TUN) announced the Tundra Tsi574 Serial RapidIO Switch, a high-performance switch with patent-pending technology that delivers the performance, power and configurability, designers of embedded designs need to build reliable, high-performance RapidIO-based systems for a wide range of applications such as wireless base stations, media gateways, video infrastructure and DSP-intensive image processing.
  • Tundra Semiconductor Corporation (TSX: TUN) announced the Tundra Tsi576 Serial RapidIO Switch, a low price per port, small footprint device with optimal port width configurations for both the local and backplane interconnect. The Tsi576 expands the Company's high-performance RapidIO(R) switch portfolio targeted for a wide variety of DSP-based applications such as wireless base stations, media gateways, video infrastructure and image processing.

Following are some of the many places where the RapidIO Trade Association made headlines between May and July 2006.

  • ATCA Newsletter
  • CommsDesign.com
  • CompactPCI and AdvancedTCA Systems
  • Connector Specifier
  • DigiTimes Bits + chips
  • Design & Reuse
  • DMN Newswire
  • DSP-FPGA.com
  • EDACafe.com
  • EDA Geek
  • EDN
  • Eg3
  • EE Times
  • EE Times Asia
  • EE Times / EE Times Product Center
  • EFY Times
  • Electronic Design
  • Electronicstalk
  • Electronicsweekly
  • Electropages
  • Embedded Computing Design
  • E Product Alert
  • Ferret.com
  • Industrial Embedded Systems
  • IT News Online
  • Light Reading
  • Linley Group
  • LinuxDevices.com
  • MILCOTS Digest
  • Military Embedded Systems
  • Netscape Celebrity
  • Netstumbler.com
  • Nikkei Electronics Asia Online
  • Ottawa Business Journal
  • Physorg.com
  • RF Design
  • RTC Magazine
  • Telecom Asia
  • Test & Measurement World
  • TMCnet
  • The 451 Group
  • VMEbus Systems
  • VoIP Magazine
  • Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • Yahoo! News

Visit these links to read a sampling of the articles that include RapidIO technology, its members and RapidIO-based products: