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25 July 2008
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New Products
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Chipsets
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ADSL modem chipset
The BSN6030 chipset has been unleashed for Blue-tooth designs. The chipset includes a 0.18-micron baseband processor and the company's BiCMOS RF transceiver. The ROM-based base-band controller includes an integrated Bluetooth software stack up to the HCI interface. The TRF 6001 Bluetooth RF transceiver chip offers a sensitivity reception better than -86 dBm. The transceiver is packaged in a 56-lead Microstar BGA Junior package, and the baseband controller is offered in several packages including an 80-pin Microstar BGA Junior.
Texas Instruments, Inc., www.ti.com
Switch-fabric architecture
The Pi-Switch chipset enables designers to bring protocol-independent switch-fabric architecture to IP, ATM, and multiservice applications. The chipset consists of the Pi-X switch chip and one or more Pi-C crossbar element chips and supports two port rates, 1 and 4 Gbps. The chipset features a nonblocking architecture that offers modular scaleability over a range of switching and buffering capacities, from 20 to 128 Gbps.
Lucent Technologies Micro-electronics Group, www.lucent.com/micro
SHDSL chipset
The Orion chipset is engineered for T1/E1 line cards and repeaters, router and bridge CPE, and cellular basestations. The chipset includes a transceiver, a DSP/framer, and an analog front end (AFE)/LD. The G.991.2-compliant chipset support TDM and Utopia interfaces and delivers data rates up to 4.6 Mbps.
GlobeSpan, Inc., www.globespan.net
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ICs
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Gigabit Ethernet chip
Integrating a dual SERDES and gigabit MAC controller with a POS-PHY Level 3 system interface, the PM3386 S/UNI-2xGE dual-port Gigabit Ethernet transceiver connects di-rectly to optical modules. The IC offers a standard gigabit media independent interface (GMII) and operates at low power levels. Enabling the development of Gigabit Ethernet line cards used in carrier class networking equipment, the 27- x 27-mm chip is implemented in 0.18-micron CMOS technology and sports a 2-W per port power consumption. The transceiver is packaged in a 352 UBGA package.
PMC-Sierra, www.pmc-sierra.com
Networking DSP
Aimed at next generation networking products, the MSC8102 digital signal processor integrates four 300-MHz SC140 extended cores and 11.5 Mbits of on-chip memory. Additional features in-clude 16 ALUs onchip to deliver 4,800 MMACS, dual PowerPC (60x-compatible) buses, and a 32-channel on-chip DMA engine. The DSP will be manufactured utilizing 0.13-micron copper interconnect process technology, and will sport an estimated power dissipation of 1.6W, all in a FC-PBGA package.
Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector, www.motorola.com/ semiconductors
Crosspoint switch IC
The OCX160 crosspoint switch delivers 667 Mbps per port in an 80 input by 80 output configuration. Designed for SONET/ SDH and DWDM optical networking equipment, the IC supports both LVDS and LVPECL I/O standards. Packaged in a 420-pin BGA, the chip operates at 2.5 and 3.3V and features double-buffered configurable SRAM cells.
I-Cube, Inc., www.icube.com.
VoDSL DSP solutions
The VP100 series of processor solutions integrates a programmable DSP core with all requisite peripherals needed to perform four-packet voice channels on a single processor: program/data memory, host processor interface, analog front end, and A/D and D/A converters. The processor family is based on the DSP Group's TeakLiteDSPCore processor, which includes an integrated set of peripherals designed for use in VoDSL Internet access device and other packet voice applications. The initial members of the processors are the VP120, VP130, and VP140 devices, with preprogrammed broadband loop emulation services (BLES) IAD functionality suitable for two-, three-, and four-port applications.
VoicePump, Inc., www.voicepump.com
Jitter attenuators
Designed for DS3/E3/ STS-1 transmission applications, the XRT71D03 (three channel) and XRT71D04 (four channel) jitter attenuators function at 34.368-, 44.736-, and 51.84-Mbps data rates. The ICs operate with either a 3- or a 5-V power supply and meet jitter attenuation standards such as the Bellcore GR-253 and GR-499, ETSI TBR-24 standards, and the ANSI T1.105.03b 1997.
Exar Corp., www.exar.com
SONET/SDH IC family
The ACS8515 and the ACS8510, two ICs from the station equipment timing synchronization (SETS) family, have been unleashed for SONET/ SDH applications. The ACS8510 is targeted at central clock synchronization cards and produces clocks that, optionally, feed a downstream device (the ACS8515) which resides on each line card. The ACS8515 monitors, selects, and switches between the master and slave clock sets. The ACS8510 supports 14 independent input reference clocks and generates 11 PDH-rate and SONET-rate output reference clocks from 1.544 to 155.52 MHz. The ACS8515 SETS line card clock generator is a variant of the ACS8510 optimized to implement protection switching and generate line rate clocks up to 311 MHz.
Semtech Corp., www.semtech.com
Traffic management IC
The genFlow coprocessor enables multiprotocol processing and traffic shaping at OC-48c for ATM, IP, and frame relay applications. The traffic management chip sports a packet and cell processing engine with QoS and CoS features that performs classification, per-flow queuing, ATM SAR, and other interworking functions. The chip is designed for use in multiple products including OC-48c multiservice platforms, OC-48c core/edge switches, OC-3c to OC-48c aggregation, and TSR line cards.
Acorn Networks, www.acorn-networks.com
Baseband processor
The PCI5110 dual-mode integrated baseband processor supports the Universal Mobile Tele-communication Services (UMTS) standard for 3G cellular communications. Specifically targeted at mobile communication designs, the baseband processor can be used in the development of W-CDMA, GPRS, and GSM technologies. The chip delivers a 384-kbps data rate and supports turbo coding capabilities. The chip incorporates ARM's 32-bit RISC microprocessor core and features an operating voltage of 1.8V.
PrairieComm, Inc., www.prairiecomm.com
Metro optical framer/multiplexer
The PM8316 TEMUX-84 T1/E1 framer with VT/TU mapper and multiplexer has been unleashed for metro optical access, mulitservice switches, and MPLS edge router equipment. The IC, supports the global requirements for framing, mapping, and multiplexing of T1, E1, T3, and E3 channels into SONET/SDH services. This integrated solution is developed using a 1.8/3.3V CMOS process and is packaged in a 324-pin fine pitch PBGA package.
PMC-Sierra, www.pmc-sierra.com
WAN switch chip
The MT90866 chip, unleashed for WAN access equipment, incorporates a PLL and switches up to 4,096 x 2,432 channels. Housed in a 256-pin LQPF or 250-pin LBGA package, the chip is compliant with the ECTF H.110 specification, allowing it to support the CompactPCI (CPCI) platform.
Mitel Semiconductor, www.mitelsemi.com
Flash chip family
The PIC167X family of flash microcontrollers are developed using 0.5-micron process technology and sport integrated analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). The PIC16F73 and PIC16F74 microcontrollers offer 4k words of flash program memory, as well as 192 bytes of data RAM. The PIC16F76 and PIC16F77, on the other hand, offer 8k words of flash program memory and 368 bytes of data RAM. All four devices are available in 28-pin and 40-pin packages.
Micro-chip Technology, Inc., www.microchip.com
Multifunction codec
Designed to serve high volume, cordless phone, and wireless local loop (WLL) handset applications, the ML7029 adaptive differential pulse code modulation (ADPCM) codec employs an ITU-compliant ADPCM scheme to digitize a voice (analog) waveform. The codec employs a proprietary DSP architected for generating handset tones including ringing, DTMF, and side-tone. Other features include an 18-mW power consumption figure, a 3-V operating power supply, ITU-T G.711 and G.726 compliance, and a 30-pin SSOP package.
Oki Semiconductor, www.okisemi.com
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Components
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Clock circuit resonator
The new CSTCR series resonator is used in the clock circuit of a microcontroller IC. The resonator offers gold terminals, making it suitable for conductive glue mounting and operates over the frequency range of 4 to 7.99 MHz. The resonator is lead (Pb) free and has the load capacitors built into the package.
Murata Elec-tronics North America, www.murata.com
RF data tuner
Aimed at simplifying cable modem design, the AIT1000M6 PicoTuner RF data tuner measures 22 x 22 mm and is manufactured using GaAs and silicon CMOS technologies. The tuner integrates upconverter, downconverter, dual synthesizer, SAW filter, varactor, DC-to-DC converter, input filter, and tuning circuitry. The +5-VDC tuner sports an 8.5-dB typical noise figure.
Anadigics, www.anadigics.com
IrDA transceivers
The ZHX2010 FIR transceiver is compliant with the IrDA 1.3 standard for data transmission up to 4 Mbps. The transceiver sports a 2.7- to 5.25-V supply voltage and power consumption of 2mA at 2.7V. Additional features include 9.8- x 4.8- x 4.0-mm package, differential receiver design, an on-chip LED protection circuit, and a typical shutdown mode of 50nA.
ZiLOG Inc., www.zilog.com
RF synthesizers
Designed for next-generation wireless phone, satellite, two-way paging, two-way radio, and wireless LAN applications, the CX74038 and CX74039 frequency synthesizers feature settling times under 200 microseconds. Manufac-tured using a BiCMOS process, the synthesizers are optimized for mobile applications and reside in a 20-pin TSSOP.
Conexant, www.conexant.com.
MMIC mixer
Residing in an SOT-25 plastic package, the MA4EX950L-1225 passive silicon double balanced mixer is manufactured using an HMIC silicon glass process. The mixer is designed for use in applications such as frequency up/down conversion and I&Q modulation and demodulation in digital receivers and transmitters. The mixer is capable of achieving a 20-dBm third-order intercept point with 3 dBm of LO drive.
M/A-COM, Inc., www.macom.com.
Fiber-optic driver amplifier
The CMM3030-BD driver amplifier is designed for fiber-optic modulators targeting applications requiring data rates of greater than 13 Gbps. The 23-dBm amplifier operates from 30 kHz to 30 GHz with a linear 10-dB gain response. Typical output voltage is 7.5V peak-to-peak.
Celeritek, www.celeritek.com.
Switching controllers
Addressing switching power supply design flexibility issues, the LM3477, LM3478, and LM3488 target applications such as custom power supplies in DSL and cable modems and set-top boxes. The LM3477 controller is for topologies requiring high-side N-FETs, while the LM3478 and LM3488 controllers are suitable for regulator topologies requiring low-side N-FETs. The LM3488 can also be synchronized to an external clock, and includes a 1.5% internal reference (over temperature). The input voltage range for the LM3478/88 boost controller is 2.95 to 40V and the switching frequency for both parts can be adjusted between 100 kHz and 1 MHz with a single external resistor. The LM3477 step-down controller operates from 2.95 to 35V with a fixed clock frequency of 500 kHz.
National Semiconductor, www.national.com.
Embedded Bluetooth antenna
An embedded antenna has been unveiled for wireless in-building Internet and Bluetooth applications. This 2.4-GHz embedded antenna sports a D-shaped design, enabling OEMs to incorporate two antennas on to their product to create spatial diversity in 802.11 applications. The embedded antenna offers a peak gain of +4 dBi while measuring 16 mm in diameter and 6.25 mm tall. The antenna weighs 1 gram and offers a VSWR of 2.5:1.
RangeStar Wireless, www.rangestar.com.
Flat cable and connector system
A flat-cable-and-connector system has been unleashed for low-voltage DC power and low-voltage, low-frequency AC signal distribution applications. Because the conductors in this system are not glued, the insulation can be stripped off with mechanical or thermal strippers. This cable is combined with the company's IDC-type connectors. The connect-ors can be configured to splice two wires together, creating a bus system. The cables are available with conductors ranging from 18 to 28 AWG, or any mix thereof, with conductor pitches ranging from 2 (0.079-in) through 6.4 mm (0.25-in.) or wider. Electrical characteristics include a maximum operating voltage of 250VAC and a dielectric strength of 1500VAC.
Methode Connector Products, www.methode.com.
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Subsystems
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Dual processor boards
Based on Intel's 1-GHz processor, the Compact-PCI (CPCI) Atlas C and VMEbus Atlas-V boards provide built-in support for symmetric and real-time asymmetric processing. The boards feature a pair of 1-GHz Pentium III processors, each equipped with 256 kbytes of no-wait-state on-die cache. I/O options included with the Atlas boards are dual 10/100-Mbps Ethernet interfaces, a 40-Mbyte/s UltraWide SCSI interface, and a 64-bit AGP graphics engine. RTOSes supported include Windows NT, Solaris x86, QNX, and VxWorks.
General Micro Systems, www.gms4vme.com
Network interface card
The PMC/Fast Ethernet/ 21143 network interface card (NIC) is aimed at Fast Ethernet designs. Using this NIC, designers can distribute and network communication and control functions using the Ethernet 10/100Base-Tx protocol.This NIC is compatible with Alpha, Pentium, and PowerPC processor-based platforms running the Tru64 UNIX, VxWorks, or Windows NT OSes. In addition, a developer design kit is available for other operating systems and microprocessors, such as MIPS and StrongARM.
Force Computers, www.forcecomputers.com
Packet voice processing subsystem
The ENP-3510, a CPCI-based subsystem designed with the IXP1200 network processor, was unleashed for high availability telecom/ datacom equipment including media gateways, voice processing systems, network access devices, and call centers equipment. The subsystem supports 256 full-duplex channels per board. Other features include four 10/100Base-T Ethernet connections available through the front panel or rear transition module and a T8105 timeslot interchanger chip. Additionally, the subsystem has a single PMC site that can be used for various purposes - as I/O for E1/T1, to provide OC-3 ATM or a DSP cluster, or for other special-purpose interfaces.
RadiSys, www.radisys.com
CPCI board
The RL4 is a new single-slot 3U board that features Motorola PowerPC 7400/75x technology with processing speeds up to 500 MHz, a 32-bit interface and PCI-PCI bridging. The board, includes such peripherals as 10/100Base Fast Ethernet, RTC, watchdog and four counter timers, four serial channels with RS-232 and RS-422/ 485 interfaces. Additional features include 32 kbytes non-volatile SRAM, temperature sensor, a PMC expansion slot, up to 128 Mbytes of SDRAM, and 48 Mbytes of flash. Software available for the board includes monitor/ diagnostics, VxWorks, and LynxOS.
SBS Technologies, Inc., www.sbs.com
Embedded PDA/ handheld platform
Aimed at the PDA/handheld market, the "Bitsy" single board computer (SBC) is built around the Intel 32-bit Strong-ARM SA1110 RISC processor and SA-111 companion chip. The SBC's processor runs at less than 450mW at 206 MHz. The system runs from an unregulated 6 to 12VDC, includes a battery charger, and delivers backup battery. Supporting up to 16 Mbytes of SDRAM and 32 Mbits of flash memory, the SBC includes a Type II PCMCIA slot. Operating systems supported include Windows CE, Microware's OS-9, and VxWorks.
Applied Data Systems, www.applieddata.net
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Test & Measurement
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Spectrum analyzer
The E4440A performance spectrum analyzer measures and monitors complex RF and microwave signals in wireless communication applications and other high-frequency designs. The analyzer sports 1-ms sweep speeds, 0.3-dB absolute amplitude accuracy, 0.1-dB linearity over a 100-dB range, 113-dB distortion free dynamic range, and sensitivity of -153 dBm.
Agilent Technologies, www.agilent.com
Voice-operated oscilloscope
The VocalLink software package provides design engineers with a voice-controlled, multilingual user interface for the company's TDS oscilloscopes. Compatible with the company's TDS3000, TDS500, TDS600, TDS700, and TDS7000 series oscilloscopes, the software is available in two versions: Basic and Pro. Both offer a comprehensive command set, audio feedback, speaker-independent capability, and multiple languages. The basic package offers more than 50 simple voice commands, while the pro package delivers more than 60 simple voice commands and includes a macro capability. English and German languages are part of this initial offering, with other languages planned for release early next year.
Tektronix, Inc., www.tektronix.com
Vector modulator
The 2029 vector modulator, aimed at cellular phone designs, can turn RF signal generators into digital signal generators. The modulator can test 2G, 2.5G, and 3G formats with a frequency range from 800 MHz to 2.51 GHz. When combined with any analog RF signal source, the modulator can output digital signals in W-CDMA, cdma2000, IS-95, GSM, IS-136, and EDGE formats. Additional features include a 0.01-dB RF output resolution and an RF level accuracy (CW) of plus/minus 0.5 dB from 18ý to 28 degrees C for CW signal levels greater than -110 dBm.
IFR, www.ifrsys.com
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Design Tools
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System design tools
The communication system design (CSD) Pack for Mathcad combines a set of wavelet, image, and signal processing functions with the modeling and simulation capabilities of Visual Solutions, Inc.'s VisSim/ Comm Personal Edition software. The system creates an integrated environment for performing dynamic system simulations for communications and signal processing. The software system combines the feature sets of the following software components: VisSim/Comm 4.5 Perso-nal Edition (PE), a modeling and simulation package that includes over 180 blocks for the modeling and simulation of control, communication or signal processing systems or algorithms, MATLAB integration tools, and a SIMULINK translator.
MathSoft, Inc., www.mathsoft.com.
PowerPC toolset
The High C/C++ compiler toolchain and the See-Code debugger have been unleashed for PowerPC-based architectures. Features include SeeCode availability for Solaris, a compressed INIT DATA feature in the linker, improved code generation for long long integers, and DWARF-2 debug record generation. In addition, the debugger supports Precis/MQX, Kadak AMX, Express Logic ThreadX, and ATI NucleusOS RTOSes.
Metaware, Inc., www.metaware.com.
Simulation tool
The Precise/RTCSsim simulation tool is a version of the Precise/RTCS embedded Internet stack. The tool runs on a Windows host computer in conjunction with Precise/MQXsim and is a simulation tool for the Precise/MQX RTOS. The tool supports all functionality and features of the Precise/RTCS stack. The tool lets a designer code and test an embedded TCP/IP application on a host computer before cross-compiling the application and loading it on the embedded target. It is compatible with Microsoft Visual C++ and other Windows development tools.
Precise Software Technologies, Inc., www.psti.com.
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Software and Intellectual Property
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Net processor library
The Microcode Solutions Library for the Intel IXP1200 network processor provides an open, standard interface to any operating system running on the StrongARM core processor. This library can be used for developing communications devices such as enterprise and edge routers, ATM access/core switches, IP gigabit/terabit routers, Layer 3+ gigabit Ethernet switches, DSL/cable broadband, and wireless base stations. The library is RTOS independent, so it is interoperable with other OSes such as Linux, VxWorks, and in-house RTOSes running on the StrongARM core processor of the IXP1200.
Microware Systems Corp., www.microware.com.
RISC-DSP core
Aimed at VoIP, PDA, and 3G cellular applications, the LX5180 RISC-DSP core uses 20 MIPS of its total 150 MIPS performance to perform the G.723.1 full duplex VoIP codec algorithm. The core incorporates the Radiax DSP instruction extension to the baseline MIPS I instructions (except for un-aligned loads and stores, which are emulated in software) and has a dual multiply-accumulate (MAC) arrangement to achieve a maximum of 360 million MACs per second at 180 MHz. The core's power dissipation varies between 0.3 mW/MHz at below 50 MHz all the way to 0.5 mW/MHz at 180 MHz.
Lexra, Inc., www.lexra.com.
Memory-protected RTOS
Version 3.0 of the Integrity RTOS is a memory-protected RTOS that includes a highest locker semaphore and ARINC 653 partition scheduling.
The RTOS also supports a variety of Internet and telecom protocols, including TCP/IP, PPP, FTP, DHCP, ATM, SS7, Frame Relay, ISDN, H.323, V5, and X.25. The RTOS uses the hardware memoryprotection facilities of MMUs to separate the kernel and user tasks into separate address spaces. The RTOS also employs a pre-emptive, real-time, priority-based multitasking scheduler. The RTOS is available for a variety of PowerPC processors, including the PowerPC 821, 860, 8260, 60x, 740/750, and PowerPC 7400/Altivec.
Green Hills Software, Inc., www.ghs.com.
Portable processor core
Targeting low-power consumer and portable applications such as wireless Internet devices, the pT-120 32-bit RISC processor core sports a cache controller with configurable 0 to 64 kbytes of data cache and 0 to 64 kbytes of configurable instruction cache. It can be ported to new process technologies and integrated into any low-power device, which needs cache control and requires speeds of up to 400 to 500 MHz. The basic die size of the core is 2.1 mm2 in the 0.18-micron process. Key features of the core in-clude the ability to exe-cute ARM (version 4T) instructions, code com-pression, DSP extensions, and fast context switching.
picoTurbo, Inc., www.picoturbo.com.
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