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.

  • Fabric Embedded Tools Corporation (FET) announced the availability of its version 2.1 release of RapidFET™ which leverages host capable Serial RapidIO endpoints such as Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) digital signal processors (DSPs). RapidFET is a network management and diagnostic tool proven to work well with TI's TMS320C6455 and TMS320TCI6482 DSPs to configure systems quickly, isolate problems and manage system traffic. The enumeration, auto discovery and other network management features enabled by the combination of RapidFET software on TI's communication infrastructure focused DSPs, enable homogenous systems with DSP taking on more of system host and management functionality.
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  • Broadband access equipment manufacturers now can integrate control and data path functions onto a single semiconductor device with the introduction of an advanced PowerQUICC III processor family from Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL, FSL.B). Compatible with previous generation PowerQUICC offerings, Freescale's MPC8568E and MPC8567E processors offer a Gigahertz CPU core, flexible QUICC Engine technology and high speed system interfaces for multi-protocol interworking.
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  • IDT (Integrated Device Technology, Inc.) (NASDAQ: IDTI), a vital semiconductor solutions provider, announced that its industry-leading pre-processing switch (PPS) secured first place in the EE Times and eeProductCenter 3.2 Ultimate Products survey. Nominated in the logic/programmable logic and interface products category, the IDT 70K2000 PPS is the industry's only off-the-shelf pre-processing switch (PPS) supporting digital signal processor (DSP) clusters in wireless base station applications. More specifically, the product is designed to enable wireless cell phone users to receive high value-added services, such as mobile video, by way of modular wireless infrastructures designed to achieve higher throughput at a lower price point.
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  • Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC) announced that Mercury Computer, a computing solutions provider to government, defense, energy, medical and telecommunications providers, has ported its high-performance Serial RapidIO® Intellectual Property (IP) product line, consisting of x1 and x4 endpoint IP cores, to the LatticeSC family of 90nm (nanometer) Extreme Performance FPGAs. In addition, Mercury has joined Lattice's ispLeverCORE Connections IP partner program. Working together, Mercury and Lattice will develop and deliver complete system solutions for mutual customers requiring high-performance Serial RapidIO connectivity supported by Lattice's FPGA product families.
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  • Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY - News) announced its Serial RapidIO®-to-PCIe Bridge IP (intellectual property) Core -- the first intelligent bridge of its kind in the industry. The Serial RapidIO-to-PCIe intelligent bridge features complete protocol translation, an optimized dual-channel multi-threaded DMA engine, and a pipelined PCI Express-to-RapidIO mapping table to address high-throughput streaming applications as both consumer and producer. It also provides a variety of system service features including mailbox message queuing, PCIe MSI/MSI-X interrupt controller, RapidIO-to-PCIe Atomic transaction encapsulation, access protection, real-time event counters, and error management.
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  • Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), along with members of the TI DSP Third Party Network, delivered in-depth technical presentations on several signal processing topics to attendees of the Global Signal Processing Conference (GSPx) Silicon Valley and the GSPx Multi-Core Applications Conference, held from October 30 - November 2 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. These presentations are designed to introduce and educate designers on innovative products and ground-breaking signal processing technologies. In addition to system level programming tips for TI's DaVinci(TM) technology, TI sessions will give designers a deep dive into the Serial RapidIO (sRIO) and Message Queue functionality of the TMS320C6455 digital signal processor (DSP).
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  • Tundra Semiconductor Corporation (TSX: TUN), the leader in System Interconnect, announced that Emerson Network Power's (NYSE: EMR) new Embedded Computing business, formerly Artesyn Communication Products, has implemented Tundra's industry-leading Tsi568A Serial RapidIO Switch into the Fat Pipe switch module in its new 12-slot MicroTCA development system, and is working with Tundra on a series of additional Serial RapidIO designs.
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  • Tundra Semiconductor Corporation (TSX:TUN), the leader in System Interconnect, announced availability of the Tundra Tsi578 Serial RapidIO Development Platform (SRDP). The addition of this design support tool, using the Tsi578 Serial RapidIO Switch, offers customers flexibility and the overall benefit of reducing both their design risk and time-to-market.
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In the Spotlight:

During the last few months, The RapidIO® Trade Association and standard continue to be sought after news in the industry. Following are some of the many places where the RapidIO Trade Association is making headlines and many of these outlets ran multiple stories between August 2006 and October 2006.

  • Advanced Imaging Pro
  • Analog and DSP
  • ArriveNet
  • Bolsamania
  • Byte & Switch
  • Chip Design
  • CommsDesign.com
  • Control Engineering
  • COTS Journal
  • Daily Business News
  • Desktop Engineering
  • Design & Reuse
  • DMN Newswire
  • DSP-FPGA.com
  • ECN Asia
  • EE Times Asia
  • EE Times India
  • EE Times / EE Times Product Center
  • Eg3
  • Electronic Design
  • Electronic Products
  • Embedded.com
  • Embedded Computing Design
  • Embedded Control Europe
  • HPCwire
  • KCAU-TV
  • KOTA Territory News
  • Light Reading
  • LinuxDevices.com
  • LinuxElectrons
  • Managing Automation
  • Military & Aerospace Electronics
  • MILCOTS Digest
  • Military Embedded Systems
  • Monitor Today
  • Planet Analog
  • RTC Magazine
  • Sys-con India
  • Tickertech.com
  • Wireless Design & Development
  • Wireless Net DesignLine
  • Yahoo! Finance
  • Yahoo! News

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