Banderacom Licenses Rambus RaSer Serial Link Technology for InfiniBand Solutions.Business Editors LOS ALTOS Los Altos (lôs ăl`tōs, lŏs), residential city (1990 pop. 26,303), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1952. There is diversified light manufacturing. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 20, 2002 Rambus (Nasdaq:RMBS RMBS Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities RMBS Rambus, Inc. (NASDAQ stock symbol) RMBS Russian Mortgage-Backed Securities ) today announced that Banderacom, the leading fabless InfiniBand(TM) semiconductor company, has licensed RaSer(TM) serial link cell for use in the IBandit(TM) target channel adaptor (TCA TCA 1. trichloroacetic acid. 2. tricarboxylic acid cycle (Krebs cycle). TCA Tricyclic antidepressant, see there ), its fully integrated InfiniBand system-on-a-chip and the foundation of Banderacom's suite of high performance InfiniBand solutions. The IBandit-TCA is a single chip solution with fully integrated InfiniBand MACs and RaSer cells which significantly reduced the time and cost of implementing complex InfiniBand target system designs. In addition, integration of the controller and serial link cell resulted in increased scalability, smaller footprint, lower supply voltage and power. "It was important for the RaSer technology to meet several requirements. The Raser cell with its point-to-point, full duplex (Computers) arranged so that the information may be transmitted in both directions simultaneously; - of communications channels between computers; contrasted with "By providing integrated InfiniBand controllers enabling lower cost, smaller adapter cards, Banderacom is well positioned to accelerate the growth of the emerging InfiniBand market," said Kevin Donnelly, vice president of the Network Connections Division at Rambus Inc. "The IBandit-TCA controller showcases the advantages of RaSer technology's ability to scale by design, in this case configurable as four 1x or one 4x InfiniBand ports." RaSer(TM) Cell Technology Rambus RaSer technology offers designers a scalable serial link architecture that addresses current and future serial link applications requiring the highest bandwidth. RaSer technology can be employed across a variety of different networking applications, including WAN router A network device designed to forward packets to an external network such as the Internet. Most routers are used to direct traffic to a network outside of the one they reside in such as the Internet. and switch backplanes, Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet, InfiniBand, Fibre Channel, and fiber optic network interfaces and any other custom chip-to-chip applications. Rambus RaSer cells are offered as an analog core library cell, for 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. and ASSP (Application Specific Standard Part) An ASIC chip that is designed as a generic device for a particular market. Whereas an ASIC is typically used only by its creator, ASSPs are used by many different companies in the design of their products. See ASIC. designs. A complete serial link solution, the RaSer cell contains serializer, transmitter, receiver, deserializer, and clock recovery circuitry. The cell is designed to meet the physical layer requirements for a wide range of serial link applications, each of which may have different logical requirements (protocol, framing, coding, etc.). As a replacement to stand-alone discrete serial link components, the RaSer cell may be integrated with other communications functions in order to offer higher value network services and reduced component count. For more information on RaSer technology, visit Rambus' web site at www.RaSerLink.com. About Banderacom Banderacom is an Austin, Texas-based fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. focused on dramatically increasing the performance and reliability of networking, storage and server system products in the dynamic new world of InfiniBand. Banderacom provides flexible, high performance semiconductors based on InfiniBand specifications. Banderacom is also a Sponsoring Member of the InfiniBand Trade Association The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) is the standards organization that defines and maintains the InfiniBand specification. It is an industry consortium. The IBTA was established in 1999, and its most prominent members include Cisco, IBM, Intel, Mellanox, QLogic, Sun and , and participates in the association's, Marketing Working Group(MWG MWG Men with Guts (sports apparel company) MWG Match-Winning Goal (soccer) mWG Microworld of Gems (e-commerce business) MWG Measurements Working Group MWG Model Working Group ), MWG IT Subgroup, MWG Benchmark Subgroup, and Compatibility and Interoperability Working Group (CIWG CIWG Critical Infrastructure Working Group CIWG Collaboration Interoperability Working Group CIWG Communications Interoperability Working Group CIWG Cyberinfrastructure Working Group CIWG Combat Identification Working Group CIWG Critical Interfaces Working Group ). Banderacom was founded in 1999 by a veteran team from the microprocessor and communications semiconductor industries. Banderacom is funded by multiple capital partners, including Austin Ventures, Infinity Venture Capital, Jato Tech Ventures, Trinity Venture Capital, Intel, and QLogic Corporation. Banderacom is a member of the InfiniBand Trade Association (www.infinibandta.org). For more information, visit www.banderacom.com or call (512) 302-0002. About Rambus Inc. Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS) designs, develops and licenses high-bandwidth chip-connection technology, and provides the comprehensive engineering support necessary for a complete system solution. Rambus' technology and intellectual property are licensed to leading semiconductor suppliers, including DRAM, controller and microprocessor manufacturers, ASIC developers, and foundries for use in computer, consumer and networking systems such as personal computers, workstations, servers, game consoles, set top boxes, digital HDTVs, high-speed switches and routers. Rambus and RDRAM (Rambus DRAM) Pronounced "r-d-ram." A dynamic RAM chip technology from Rambus, Inc., Los Altos, CA (www.rambus.com). Rambus licensed its memory designs to semiconductor companies, which manufactured the chips. are registered trademarks of Rambus Inc. Other trademarks that may be mentioned in this release are the intellectual property of their respective owners. |
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