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Allayer Communications announced a chipset for the design of Gigabit Layer 3/4 Ethernet switches. The two devices in the chipset include the AL1022 2-port, Gigabit Ethernet switch chip and the AL3000 Layer 3/4 routing engine, which also provides network management. Each device contains a 12.8-Gbps, 32-bit RoX-II interface that allows an engineer to scale their design by linking multiple chips. The AL1022 supports features such as quality of service (QoS), trunking, and VLAN. It recognizes and prioritizes class 0 (management information), class 1 (voice and data), class 2 (data), and class 3 (back-up data) which are examples of high to low priority rating. The trunking feature in the AL1022 supports full IEEE 802.3ad. The network manager in the chip uses the RoX-II bus to collect network management information from up to 32 ports and provides spanning tree support. Product Xpress 105
Allayer Communications, www.allayer.com .
Product Xpress 105

Components

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Celeritek, Inc. announced a CDMA 50- matched power amplifier module for PCS, wireless local loop (WLL), and other high bandwidth wireless data markets. Model CHP1232-PM is a linear 3-stage power amplifier developed for PCS CDMA handsets and infrastructure systems, W-CDMA handsets, and WLL subscriber units that operate in the 1.85- to 1.91-GHz frequency range. Typical features include operation as low as 3.2V from a single positive supply, 30-dB gain at operating output power, 35% linear power added efficiency (PAE), and +28-dBm output power (IS-98 CDMA mode). Measuring 6 x 1.7 mm, the device has minimum matching elements and no negative supply.
Celeritek, Inc., www.celeritek.com .
Product Xpress 110

Subsystems

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Oki Semiconductor introduced µPLAT, an ARM-based integration platform. µPLAT offers an ARM processor and a preverified peripheral subsystem, and can be combined with an embedded DRAM. The device is designed for WLANs, cable modems, xDSL, VoIP, and Internet appliances, and contains an ARM processor, cache RAM, memory controller, and other standard functions. It is packaged with hardware and software design tools and prototyping aids.
Oki Semiconductor, www.okisemi.com .
Product Xpress 114

SBS Technologies, Inc., Modular I/O announced the PMC-100BT, a 100-Mbyte Fast Ethernet controller on a single-wide PMC module, designed for embedded communication systems and networks based on CompactPCI (CPCI) or VME bus architectures. Back-to-back transmissions with minimum interface latency are realized through two transmit and receive FIFOs. The PMC-100BT provides IEEE 802.3 autonegotiation support and includes a number of features such as Manchester encoding/decoding (10Base-Tx), 4B/5B encoding/decoding (100Base-Tx), and scrambling/descrambling (100Base-Tx). The Ethernet network connection is through a front panel RJ45 connector or the real panel (P4) interface to the host carrier board. The system is compliant with standard single-side PMC specifications IEEE P1386.1.
SBS Technologies, Inc. Modular I/O, www.sbs-mio.com .
Product Xpress 115

DATEL Systems announced the CPCI-560 digital I/O board, based on the 3U CPCI form factor and designed for use in process control applications, instrumentation needing logic-level lines, and external device or apparatus status and control of special test fixtures. The 24 I/O lines on the CPCI-560 form three separate byte-wide ports and may be fully programmed as either inputs or outputs in three 8-bit groups. They are configurable by software as well as by a dual-byte buffered strobed digital interface with full handshakes and latch controls. Each line is compatible to TTL/LS and CMOS logic levels driving one TTL load. A separate gatable input port may be programmed to generate a maskable interrupt to the CPCI bus, for alarm conditions or status monitoring. Each port may be accessed up to 2 MHz if host-side software is fast enough to respond.
DATEL Systems, www.datel.com/boards.htm .
Product Xpress 116

Test & Measurement

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Agilent Technologies, Inc. announced the 89600 series vector signal analyzer, which offers a single software/hardware design environment. The 89600 is an integrated solution of VXI hardware and measurement software which resides on a PC using Windows NT. The analyzer has 40-MHz bandwidth capacity for measuring real RF signals up to 2.7 GHz, and is available with a VXI-based hardware interface with a wide bandwidth of 40-MHz baseband and 36 MHz in the RF configuration. The 89600 offers a link to the Advanced Design System (ADS) EDA software from Agilent’s EEsof product group.
Agilent Technologies, www.agilent.com .
Product Xpress 117

Tektronix, Inc. announced the TLA7XM expansion mainframe, which works in conjunction with the TLA 700 series logic analyzers. The TLA7XM offers up to 16M of memory acquisition per channel to allow deep trace history across all channels, enabling design engineers to simultaneously monitor, debug, and verify electronics systems containing multiple processors and buses. The mainframe supports large channel-count applications found in high-end microprocessor and embedded systems design. The TLA7XM provides up to sixteen total modules for 2,176 logic analyzer, 64 digital storage oscilloscope, or 1,024 pattern generator channels. Using the mainframe requires V3.1 of the TLA application software.
Tektronix, Inc., www.tektronix.com/ measurement .
Product Xpress 118

Design Tools

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Green Hills Software announced ISIM, an RTOS simulation environment for their Integrity RTOS. ISIM is a PowerPC instruction set simulator that provides support for PowerPC systems running Integrity, including virtual memory facilities, exception handling, and debugging across a LAN. The system runs on Windows 95/98/NT and Solaris 2.x host platforms. ISIM simulates the RTOS using the same PowerPC code that runs on the target, which enables designers to determine precise application size characteristics during simulation. The software is tightly integrated with the MULTI debugger, allowing designers to debug their simulated application on the host the same way that they would debug it on the target. ISIM supports both freeze-mode and run-mode debugging, and can simulate Integrity-based PowerPC applications on a Windows or Unix-based host system at a speed of nearly two MIPS on a 550-MHz Pentium III.
Green Hills Software, 805.965.6044.
Product Xpress 119

Software & Intellectual Property

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Spider Software Ltd. unleashed SpiderDSF, a solution for high bandwidth communications which require minimum downtime. The system uses the processing power of both the daughter and host cards, and can be implemented on a system bus or over a network system. The technology enables distribution of protocol stacks, supporting multiple architectures and OSes. SpiderDSF consists of a set of drivers and libraries that can be broken down into two different versions. Spider SXB (STREAMS cross bus driver) is a shared memory system used in situations where a system bus is available. SpiderSXN (STEAMS cross network driver) is a network-based system and is used in situations where a network interconnects the cards.
Spider Software Ltd., www.spider.com .
Product Xpress 120

Calibre, Inc. unveiled xConnect 1.0, a suite of utilities that automatically allows users of any infrared-enabled notebook or PC running on Windows 98 to create and manage cordless data connections with other IR-equipped computers and appliances. XConnect detects, connects, and launches the appropriate applications for IR-enabled appliances automatically. Newly discovered IR-enabled appliances are also loaded automatically when these are brought within range of the PC’s IR port. The software displays which applications are associated with each IR-enabled device and launches these upon connection. An icon in the Windows tray displays status information, alerting users to the status of the IR communication subsystem.
Calibre Inc., www.calibre-inc.com .
Product Xpress 121

Xilinx, Inc. announced more than 50 cores for use in the Spartan-II family of FPGAs. This IP includes parameter-driven Smart-IP-based LogiCORE modules and the Real-PCI solutions from Xilinx, as well as cores from third-party developers in the Xilinx AllianceCORE program. Spartan-II devices can replace complex functions such as SDRAM controllers that formerly required separate application-specific standard products. The Real-PCI solution for Spartan-II includes Internet-accessible 32-bit and 64-bit PCI LogiCORE modules, synthesizable PCI bridge reference designs with basic DMA and BlockRAM-based FIFOs.
Xilinx, Inc., www.xilinx.com/ipcenter .
Product Xpress 122

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