Cypress Optimizes HOTLink II PHYs For OBSAI RP3 Serial Link Specification; High-Speed Serial Links for Basestations Reduce Development Effort and Cost.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- Cypress Semiconductor Cypress Semiconductor is a semiconductor design and manufacturing company. It began operations in 1982 and listed publicly in 1986. Two years later, the company shifted over to the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol, (NYSE: CY). Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CY) today announced that its industry-leading HOTLink hotlink - A mechanism for sharing data between two application programs where changes to the data made by one application appear instantly in the other's copy. Under System 7 on the Macintosh the users establishes a hotlink by doing a "Create Publisher" on the server and II(TM) physical layer (PHY See physical layer and physical. ) family meets the Reference Point 3 (RP3) specifications of the Open Basestation Architecture Initiative (OBSAI). OBSAI is an organization of leading basestation vendors and component manufacturers formed to create common basestation interface specifications. By standardizing high data-rate basestation architecture interfaces, manufacturers will be able to focus their development efforts on creating differentiation within the basestation, and thus be able to go to market more quickly with more cost-effective products. The RP3 specification addresses the interface between baseband processing cards and RF modules utilizing OBSAI-defined packets and high-speed serial links. By following the RP3 specifications, 3G and future basestations can increase data throughput while standardizing the interfaces for easy board design. Cypress has enhanced the HOTLink II PHY to run at both of the OBSAI RP3-defined serial data speeds. "Cypress has provided the basestation market with physical-layers and multi-ported memories for many years, and obtaining OBSAI-compliance is the next step in supporting our customers' evolving architectures," said Erin Kettwig, product manager for Cypress's Data Communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. Division. "By optimizing our HOTLink II family for the OBSAI RP3 Serial Link Specification, Cypress continues to provide maximum value to basestation vendors by addressing the entire physical-layer interface between baseband cards and RF modules, thereby saving development time and effort. This enables quicker time to market for our customers, allowing them to focus on differentiating their design." Cypress is a long-time supplier of backplane PHY transceivers that enable the transport of data over high-speed serial links (optical fiber, balanced and unbalanced copper transmission lines, and board traces). The HOTLink II family of PHY devices support both defined RP3 serial data rates of 768 Mbaud and 1536 Mbaud on any channel within a single chip. The chips also include a multi-byte framer for more robust framing in CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. , W-CDMA See WCDMA. and GSM/EDGE applications, and support selectable Comma (K28.5) character framing options between both message groups and master frames. Cypress's HOTLink II devices all feature low jitter A flicker or fluctuation in a transmission signal or display image. The term is used in several ways, but it always refers to some offset of time and space from the norm. For example, in a network transmission, jitter would be a bit arriving either ahead or behind a standard clock cycle , 8B/10B ENDEC capabilities, and are available in single-, dual-, quad-, and independent-channel configurations. Pricing and Availability: The HOTLink II(TM) family of OBSAI-compliant physical layers is available now, priced as listed in the table below: Part Number Channel Configuration 1Ku Price Production ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CYP15G0101DXB 1 Transceiver Channel $16 Now CYP15G0201DXB 2 Transceiver Channels $36 Now CYP15G0401DXB 4 Transceiver Channels $48 Now CYP15G0403DXB 4 Independent Transceiver Channels $51 Now ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About Cypress Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE:CY) is Connecting From Last Mile to First Mile(TM) with high-performance solutions for personal, network access, enterprise, metro switch and core communications-system applications. Cypress Connects(TM) using wireless, wireline, digital and optical transmission standards, including USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. , Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet and DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing . Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, Cypress makes industry-leading physical layer devices, framers and network search engines, along with a broad portfolio of high-bandwidth memories, timing technology solutions and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. More information about Cypress is accessible online at www.cypress.com. Cypress and the Cypress logo are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. HOTLink II, "Connecting From Last Mile to First Mile" and "Cypress Connects" are trademarks of Cypress. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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