Cicada Semiconductor Demonstrates Industry's Highest Performance, Lowest Power SimpliPHY Transceivers at Networld+Interop 2002 to Promote Widespread Deployment of Gigabit Networking.Business Editors & High Tech Writers NetWorld+Interop 2002 Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. Booth #3051 AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 6, 2002 SimpliPHY Series Provides More Than 2X Higher Noise Tolerance Than Competition while Consuming Less Than 1 Watt Per Port for Cost Effective Gigabit Networking in LANs and SANs Cicada cicada (sĭkā`də), large, noise-producing insect of the order Homoptera, with a stout body, a wide, blunt head, protruding eyes, and two pairs of membranous wings. Semiconductor Corporation, the leading developer of DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) that enable broadband communications within Local, Wide, and Storage Area Networks, announced today it will be exhibiting at Networld+Interop 2002, May 7-9, at the Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. . Among the demonstrations in Cicada's booth (#3051) will be its industry-leading Gigabit Ethernet-over-copper transceivers: the SimpliPHY(TM) CIS Cis (sĭs), same as Kish (1.) (1) (CompuServe Information Service) See CompuServe. (2) (Card Information S 8204 and CIS8201. Now in volume production, the SimpliPHY product family ranks as the highest performing, lowest power 10/100/1000BASE-T transceivers in the industry, providing the highest noise immunity in real world copper cabling installations. Volume shipment of the robust SimpliPHY series means Cicada customers can accelerate implementation of powerful Gigabit networking systems in enterprise LANs and SANs, two quickly emerging markets for the transmission protocol. The N+I demonstrations will be complete, systems-level demonstrations of the SimpliPHY Transceiver Series, including high-density desktop and workgroup switches, and NICs (Network Interface Cards). Featured as part of these demonstrations will be the recently announced SwitchCore CXE-RDK2010, a compact, 16-port, cost-optimized GbE desktop switch reference platform using Cicada's SimpliPHY CIS8204 Gigabit Ethernet-over-copper transceivers, and SwitchCore's CXE-2010 workgroup switch controller chip. "Our SimpliPHY product family consistently outperforms other competitive GigE transceivers in the real world of substandard and noisy cabling environments," said Cicada CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Nick van Bavel. "Our demonstrations are designed to show our superior performance in these environments as opposed to testing in the unrealistic setting of a laboratory environment. Cicada's goal is quite simple - to be the best at enabling the trouble-free installation of Gigabit over Copper cabling, which is the key to widespread adoption of this technology." SimpliPHY's Unique Fully Adaptive DSP Architecture The SimpliPHY series maintains cable reach in excess of 100 meters of cabling deployed in Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. networks even under extreme conditions caused by noise or interference in the network equipment or cabling. This provides system users with more than twice the cable reach under real world noise conditions Noun 1. noise conditions - the condition of being noisy (as in a communication channel) condition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" that cause competitive devices to fall short of meeting the minimum reach required by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. specifications. This unsurpassed level of performance simplifies the Ethernet system designer's job, enabling the straightforward design of the highest density, lowest cost Ethernet switches while simultaneously easing installation and maintenance for the Gigabit Ethernet IT manager. Unlike the competition's traditional, fixed Feed Forward Equalizers (FFEs), the SimpliPHY's fully adaptive, DSP-based FFE FFE Fédération Française d'Equitation (French governing body for equestrian sport) FFE Fédération Française des Échecs FFE Food for Education FFE Flat File Extractor FFE Frontier: First Encounters and timing recovery architecture delivers superior cable reach performance in the presence of a variety of system noise sources, including interference from other services and equipment. In addition, SimpliPHY simultaneously adapts to wide temperature variations and non-compliant cables and connectors often found in harsh commercial and industrial network operating environments. Superior Architecture Enables Lowest Cost, Highest Volume Products Unlike competitive devices, the SimpliPHY transceivers are manufactured in mainstream, low cost, digital CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. processes to eliminate expensive analog process modules that limit the ability to manufacture in the most cost effective technology. Further, the SimpliPHY series delivers the lowest power consumption in the industry while utilizing this less aggressive - and less expensive - CMOS process. This architectural advantage provides a foundation for Cicada's roadmap of transceivers and System-on-Chip (SOC) solutions with even higher port densities and lower power in more aggressively scaled technologies. VeriPHY(TM) - Expanded Software Release for N+I Las Vegas Cicada's demonstrations at Networld+Interop 2002 will also include a new release of Cicada's original VeriPHY Link Management Software Suite. VeriPHY offers SimpliPHY customers a suite of powerful network management tools, diagnostic utilities, and a graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to (GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. ) to ease the installation and management of Gigabit Ethernet equipment. With the ability to quickly measure and monitor more than two dozen cable parameters such as cable length, cable quality, and bit-error-rate, equipment designers and IT managers benefit by being able to quickly pinpoint potential problems in the cable plant. VeriPHY eliminates needless and expensive equipment replacements and field returns by integrating the power and simplicity of a sophisticated hand-held cable tester in the PHY See physical layer and physical. - at no cost to the systems designer. Availability Both the quad port CIS8204 and the single-port CIS8201 are shipping in volume. Cicada will also have a new product announcement the week of the show. Interested persons should contact Karen Johnson at karen@cicada-semi.com. About Cicada Semiconductor Cicada Semiconductor is a 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. that designs, manufactures, and markets mixed-signal integrated circuits for the communications industry to send information faster and farther over existing copper cabling and system backplanes within Local, Wide and Storage Area Networks. Already recognized among an elite group of world-class digital communications players with a rare combination of digital and analog design experience, Cicada's mission is to be the worldwide leader in the design and development of high performance digital communications ICs. Now in full production with worldwide sales offices, Cicada's current products include two (quad-port and single port) SimpliPHY(TM) Gigabit Ethernet transceivers. For more information, go to www.cicada-semi.com, or call 512/327-3500. |
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