Cypress and Mercury to develop RACEway Interlink products; Will move RACEway technology beyond VMEbus.CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 1995--AD Mercury Computer Systems Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. NASDAQ: MRCY provides high-performance embedded, real-time digital signal and image processing solutions. Mercury designs and builds embedded multicomputers, which may be considered to be either loosely coupled , Inc. and 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 today announced that Cypress will introduce chip-level products to support Mercury's VMEbus RACEway Interlink INTERLINK - A commercial product comprising hardware and software for file transfer between IBM and VAX computers. standard (VITA 5-1994). In addition to promoting fast time-to-market for designers who adopt the standard for VMEbus board designs, Cypress will also develop semiconductors that help proliferate RACEway technology onto other standard bus environments. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Dave Horton, business manager for VMEbus and RACEway products at Cypress, "Having already been endorsed by several top VME (Virtual Machine Environment) An operating system from Fujitsu Services (formerly ICL) that runs on its Series 39 mainframes. Introduced in 1975, VME is a comprehensive product that provides a variety of utilities for datacenter operations. vendors and many smaller players, RACEway is clearly VME's future. Today's high-performance applications demand an interconnection topology that can keep up, and RACEway is the first industry-standard solution to this problem." Cypress also sees significant opportunities for RACEway beyond the VMEbus. "By making the technology widely available and an open standard, Cypress sees adoption for RACEway in applications such as network switching, RAID disk arrays, and specialized multiprocessor systems (relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. engines, file servers, and supercomputers)," Horton said. RACEway is a scalable interconnection fabric based on a network of crossbar-switch devices that provide 160 Mbytes/second throughput per port. Designers can use RACEway to interconnect multiple processors and I/O devices to achieve aggregate interprocessor communication bandwidth that scales up to several Gbytes/second. As a formally established open standard, RACEway's high performance and design flexibility are attractive to developers who require a non- proprietary mechanism for high-speed, concurrent data transfers in either a VME or non-VME context. RACEway is being used today by leading defense and commercial companies such as Lockheed Martin, Hughes Aircraft Co., Loral Defense Systems, TRW TRW The Real World (TV reality show) TRW The Right Way TRW Tactical Reconnaissance Wing TRW The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD) TRW Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc Inc., and GE Medical Systems. Initially, Cypress will sell components and modules based on Mercury's VMEbus RACEway Interlink, a standard interprocessor switching fabric that overcomes the scaling and realtime limitations inherent in conventional bus topologies. Secondly, Mercury and Cypress will jointly develop future products that include a switched PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). version of RACEway that promises to extend RACEway's benefits to markets beyond those addressed by VME systems. "Mercury is committed to open systems and this agreement is a cornerstone to our strategy," said Jay Bertelli, Mercury's 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. and president. "As the VMEbus interface-chip market leader, Cypress' investment in RACEway adds fuel to RACEway's growing momentum. This is also a very important relationship for meeting the expanding needs of the defense electronics, medical, and telecommunication markets that combine high-performance computing with extensive I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output requirements. We have great expectations from merging Cypress' chip design and manufacturing capabilities with Mercury's well-established system expertise." The first new device to emerge from this collaboration will be a PCI interface to the RACEway crossbar fabric. PCI is used by leading board vendors and is the foundation of the new PMC (1) See Portable Media Center. (2) (PCI Mezzanine Card) A PCI-based mezzanine card that is widely adapted to VMEbus, CompactPCI and PCI cards. mezzanine standard adopted by the VME, Multibus, and Futurebus communities. Bridging to the economical PCI standard will extend the benefits of RACEway to those and many other growing markets. About Cypress and Mercury Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, headquartered in San Jose, Calif., designs, develops and manufactures a broad range of high-performance integrated circuits, including programmable logic devices (PLDs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), static RAM and EPROM EPROM in full erasable programmable read-only memory Form of computer memory that does not lose its content when the power supply is cut off and that can be erased and reused. memories, data communications products, programmable clock oscillators, high-speed logic, PC chipsets, and multi-chip modules. Mercury Computer Systems, Inc., headquartered in Chelmsford, Mass., is a leading supplier of high-performance multicomputers for realtime applications. Its product line includes low-to high-end scalable multicomputer systems available in standard commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) versions with commercial and ruggedized packaging. These products provide application-specific solutions for a variety of markets ranging from defense and security to medical diagnostic and commercial image processing. CONTACT: Leigh McLeod Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. 508/256-1300 or Donald Parkman Cypress Semiconductor 408/943-2817 |
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