Cypress Samples Industry's Highest Density and Highest Bandwidth True Dual-Port RAM.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 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.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 4, 2003 FLEx72(TM) 18 Mbit Dual-Port RAM Targets High-Performance Wireless Basestations, Wide-Area & Storage-Area Networks, and Image Processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished Equipments 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). Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CY) today announced availability of the world's highest-density and highest-performance dual-port (DP) random access memory (RAM). The FLEx72(TM) 18 Mbit DP RAM is a synchronous, pipelined dual-port memory that provides two times the density of comparable devices in the market today. In addition, the FLEx72 DP RAM is the first dual-port memory to provide 72-bit wide ports enabling up to 19.2 Gbps of bandwidth. With this unprecedented combination of performance and storage capability, Cypress's FLEx72 DP RAM is the optimal solution for the increasing line rates and processing speeds required by next-generation communication systems (wireless basestations, storage area network sub-systems) and video and image processing systems. As a true dual-port memory, the FLEx72 DP RAM provides simultaneous access to any location in the memory -- either port can write and read data into and out of any memory location at the same time. This feature, combined with the ability to run both ports in two independent clock domains, enables the buffering of large packets of data between two processing elements in a system. It also eliminates bus contention Bus contention is an undesirable state of the bus of a computer, in which more than one memory mapped device or the CPU is attempting to place output values onto the bus at once. issues by enabling system architects to create a distributed bus architecture. By providing the market's first product of its kind, Cypress has set the industry pinout for 18 Mbit x72 dual-port memories. "Over the last decade Cypress has demonstrated its leadership in the high-performance specialty-memory market by designing innovative dual-port products," said Christopher Norris Christopher Norris may refer to:
Multiport memories are used in a wide variety of applications, including the wireless, wireline and storage area networking segments on which Cypress is specifically focused. In wireless infrastructure applications, multiport memories are used to store and manipulate packet data between the FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. , 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/or 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 devices operating in different clock domains on the baseband processing card. Wide area and storage networks employing high-performance communications protocols (such as OC-48, Gigabit Ethernet, or Fibre Channel) also use high-density multiported memories to buffer data packets between the backplane interconnect and the data port to avoid loss of data and maintain efficient flow control. The size of the buffer is driven by the difference between the input and output clocking speeds, the buffering time required by the system, and the bus width. These requirements dictate the need for a high-density multi-port memory in communication systems as system speeds continue to increase. "Cypress continues to deliver the industry's highest performance specialty memories for communications products offering a broad spectrum of choices to our customers," said Brent Roberts, marketing manager for Cypress's Specialty Memories. "The FLEx72 dual-port bolsters our industry-leading portfolio, which already includes QDR-II memories for packet buffering, the Ayama(TM) Network Search Engines for packet forwarding and classification, and FLEx36(TM) dual-port memories for inter-processing buffering and queuing." Availability and Pricing Samples of the FLEx72 DP RAM (CYD CYD California Young Democrats CYD Calendar Year Deductible (health insurance) CYD Children and Youth Division CYD Crush Yiff Destroy CYD Constant Year Dollars 18S72V) are available today and production quantities will be available in September 2003. The 18 Mbit devices will be priced as low as $130 per unit in quantities of 10K units per year. The addition of the FLEx72 18 Mbit devices expands Cypress's broad dual-port memory portfolio, which includes the FLEx36(TM) family of 1 Mbit, 2 Mbit, 4 Mbit and 9 Mbit devices currently in production. For more information on Cypress's portfolio of dual-port memories visit the Cypress website at: http://www.cypress.com/dualports. Photo A high-resolution photo of the FLEx72 DP RAM can be downloaded from: http://www.cypress.com/support/link.cfm?mr=18mbdp. 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 programmable microcontrollers. More information about Cypress is accessible online at www.cypress.com. Cypress and the Cypress logo are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. "Connecting From Last Mile to First Mile," FLEx72, Ayama, FLEx36 and "Cypress Connects" are trademarks of Cypress. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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