AMCC Offers New Single-Chip PCI Interface; Low-Cost, Target-Only Single-Chip PCI Interface Provides Designers With An Off-The-Shelf Product Compliant With The Proposed PCI 2.2 Standard.SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 29, 1997-- See Applied Micro Circuits Corp. at Embedded Systems Booth No. 1520 Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC AMCC Applied Micro Circuits Corporation AMCC Air Mobility Control Center AMCC Ashore Mobile Contingency Communications AMCC Advanced Materials Commercialization Center AMCC allied movement coordination center (US DoD) ) Monday announced that it has extended its Peripheral Component Interconnect See PCI. (hardware) Peripheral Component Interconnect - (PCI) A standard for connecting peripherals to a personal computer, designed by Intel and released around Autumn 1993. PCI is supported by most major manufacturers including Apple Computer. (PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). ) controller line with a Target-only single-chip interface that provides PCI board designers with an affordable, off-the-shelf, standard product. The new S5920 is compliant with both the released PCI 2.1 standard and the proposed PCI 2.2 standard. Based on the proven design of AMCC's widely-installed S5933 PCI interface, the S5920 provides a lower-cost solution for applications without bus mastering. The S5920 is software compatible with AMCC's earlier S5933 interface, enabling customers to reduce both their design-in costs and time to market. The S5920 is ideal for PCI peripheral applications such as communications and multimedia add-in cards, high-performance printer interfaces, instrumentation, data acquisition systems and other embedded applications. "As add-in card designers move from ISA (1) (Instruction Set Architecture) See instruction set. (2) (Interactive Services Association) See Internet Alliance. (3) (Internet Security and Acceleration) See .NET. to PCI interfaces, the S5920 provides a proven alternative to ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. solutions," said Anil Bedi, AMCC vice president of marketing. "As a standard product, it provides an affordable solution with a faster time to market." "We developed this device in response to customers' requests for a low-cost, Target-only PCI interface device that meets customer requirements as they transition from ISA to the 33MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. PCI interface." The PCI bus is the standard interconnect protocol for a diverse range of system architectures including personal computers, and it allows a single add-in card to support multiple platforms. AMCC facilitates the support of multiple platforms by offering add-in board designers general purpose PCI solutions to meet various needs, including the Target-only applications addressed by the S5920, and the earlier S5933 with bus master control and DMA (1) (Digital Media Adapter) See digital media hub. (2) (Document Management Alliance) A specification that provides a common interface for accessing and searching document databases. . The S5920 PCI controller provides the interface between the PCI bus and various synchronous and asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. 8-, 16-, or 32-bit local bus connections up to 40MHz. It supports PCI local bus operation to 33MHz, and is capable of transferring data at the full PCI bandwidth of 132 megabytes. An integrated 32 byte bi-directional FIFO (First In First Out) A storage method that retrieves the item stored for the longest time. Contrast with LIFO. See traffic engineering methods. FIFO - first-in first-out buffer memory supports zero wait state burst operation or programmable wait states from zero through seven. For mailbox support, a direct Add-On mail box data strobe strobe n. 1. A strobe light. 2. A stroboscope. 3. A spot of higher than normal intensity in the sweep of an indicator, as on a radar screen, used as a reference mark for determining distance. pin is provided, along with 8-, 16- and 32-bit PCI Add-On mail box registers with byte level status registers and mail box read/write interrupts. Four definable memory block Pass-Thru regions support one to four local bus address range decodes. The device supports an external non-volatile memory chip that stores operational configuration. Optionally, it can also be used for external BIOS memory space. Design Support Complementing the S5920 is AMCC's PCI "Matchmaker" Controller Developer's Kit which provides a proven reference platform for prototyping applications. The kit has a modular design that allows hardware "breadboarding Breadboarding Assembling an electronic circuit in the most convenient manner on a board or other flat surface, without regard for final locations of components, to prove the feasibility of the circuit and to facilitate changes when necessary. " as well as general evaluation of AMCC's S5920 PCI interface. Diagnostic and development utility software is included to help the designer reduce time to market of both new and existing applications. In addition to the developer's kit, AMCC offers application notes to assist with both S5933 to S5920 and ISA to PCI designs. The popularity of the company's earlier S5933 controller has attracted several third party software developers to write Windows NT and Windows 95 device drivers which are software compatible with the S5920, further reducing customer time to market. "Customers aplication support, Web information, design kitigh-speed, high reliability system interface products for data communications, telecommunications, and PCIion facilities are located in San Diego, Calif. , 6290 Sequence Drive, Sa n Diego, Calif. 92121Pund 619/535-6523 KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY KEYWORD http://www.businesswire.com |
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