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In the News

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

• Altera Corporation launched low-cost Arria GX family Transceiver-Based FPGAs. Arria GX FPGAs are optimized to support PCI Express (PCIe), Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and Serial RapidIO (SRIO) standards up to 2.5 Gbps. It features the proven Stratix II GX transceiver technology; flip-chip packages for superior signal integrity, software tools and verified intellectual property (IP) cores.
  http://www.rapidio.org/news/pr/view ?item_key=a02079abd6de741737d119e8e1946a0f850b0dda

• BittWare, Inc., announced their partnership with CorEdge Networks and the release of their RapidTCA Development System, a unique development environment for Advanced Mezzanine Card (AdvancedMC") and MicroTCA designs. BittWare's RapidTCA Development System combines the PicoTCA 1U stand-alone test and development system from CorEdge Networks, with the hybrid signal processing capabilities of BittWare's AdvancedMC products. The flexible and portable design of BittWare's RapidTCA Development System coupled with its low cost enables customers to quickly and cost-effectively bring their AdvancedMC and MicroTCA designs to life.
  http://www.rapidio.org/news/pr/view ?item_key=15b39479a0ba6845e8c94c1ba8f81a5430ef366e

• FuturePlus Systems introduced the FS4405, FS4415, and FS4416, low-cost PCI Express (PCIe®) and Serial RapidIO® protocol analysis tools for use with Tektronix TLA 7000 logic analyzers. They will be used by embedded systems designers involved in the development of computers and peripherals incorporating the PCIe and Serial RapidIO architectures.
  http://www.rapidio.org/news/pr/view ?item_key=2fe63c1bf3ce0ee0a8c46c369ad2509637bb4b72

• Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. announced that it has provided silicon intellectual property (SIP) to Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems for the development of the MONARCH (Morphable Networked Micro-Architecture) fully programmable, system-on-a-chip-processor.
  http://www.rapidio.org/news/pr/view ?item_key=c309aa12f363d15889f6583a9066161754ae49e1

• RIOLAB, a division of Fabric Embedded Tools Corporation and the world's only independent RapidIO® interoperability testing facility, announced that the Tundra Semiconductor Tsi578, (10GCLYZ2), Serial RapidIO switch is a Device Interoperability Level 3 (DIL-3) Qualified Device, having successfully passed DIL-3, DIL-2 and DIL-1 testing against all other vendor devices in the RIOLAB hardware library.
  http://www.rapidio.org/news/pr/view ?item_key=e7524a05fff2485385b1c644af1f0dfdec04abce

• Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) 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+™ 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 multichannel 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

• Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) announced its high-performance TMS320C6455 digital signal processors (DSPs) have been selected by Raytheon for use in the U.S. Navy's DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class Destroyer program. Raytheon serves as the main mission systems equipment integrator for all electronic and combat systems for the Navy. Tuned for a myriad of infrastructure equipments including high-end telecom, wireless infrastructure, and video and imaging applications, TI's 1-GHz C6455 DSP is the processing workhorse for ATRIM(TM) (Acoustic Transmit Receive Integration Module) Sonar, a sonar signal sub-system that incorporates multiple boards, each processing four channels of sonar. Peak performance, small code size, large on-chip memory and integrated peripherals, including the Ethernet MAC and Serial RapidIO(R) bus for inter-processor communications, and optical Ethernet interface, all elevated the selection of the C6455 DSP to support the design and development of this revolutionary surface combatant.
  http://www.rapidio.org/news/pr/view ?item_key=9091cfef453019cdc351d5f61d9be579905138b1

• Tundra Semiconductor Corporation announced a collaboration with Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), the leading wireless infrastructure provider, to license the Switching Module of a MicroTCA Carrier Hub (MCH) card, designed by Ericsson with Tundra's Tsi578 Serial RapidIO® Switch. The license granted to Tundra includes sub-licensing rights and Tundra will be sub-licensing the design as the Tsi578 MicroTCA Switching Module (MSM), thereby broadening the availability of Serial RapidIO-based MicroTCA Systems.
  http://www.rapidio.org/news/pr/view ?item_key=332a3f7d01081b5d8e488667c1144b8cc8d1d2a3

In the Spotlight

An abundance of articles focusing on designing with RapidIO technology have appeared in the past weeks. Below, we’ve included links to some of the best.