DCM Technologies Delivers First Commercial PCI-X Core Effectively Doubling Today's PCI Bus Technology.

New Corex-V10 Core Speeds the Design Process and Time to Market for

High-Bandwidth Applications

DCM Technologies today announced the industry's first commercially available PCI-X compliant core, the Corex-V10. Designed specially for bandwidth intensive applications, the Corex-V10 moves customers successfully from the 33/66 MHz current PCI bus to the next generation PCI-X technology operating at frequencies up to 133 MHz with peak throughput of 1 GByte/sec. DCM Technologies also announced the availability of the Corex-V10 core for the Altera APEX family of programmable logic devices.

The Corex-V10 provides a high-speed, flexible interface between the PCI-X bus and customer backend applications that effectively satisfies the need for faster system throughput required by today's increasingly powerful processors. The Corex-V10 solution significantly reduces design time, and enables users to quickly transition to the PCI-X technology for high-bandwidth applications such as Gigabit Ethernet, Fiber Channel, Wide Ultra SCSI-3, Multi-Port Network Interface Controllers (NICs), hubs, routers, and switches.

"DCM's fully verified PCI-X solution will not only accelerate development cycles for customers making the transition to the high performance bus, but will also allow them to quickly develop advanced systems," said Luanne Stechert, Altera's marketing manager. "Customers implementing the Corex-V10 will realize all the technology and design service benefits that are key strengths of DCM Technologies that can be leveraged to quickly enter the PCI-X market. In fact, DCM and Altera collaborated to provide a highly optimized PCI-X Master/Target to accelerate the adoption of the PCI-X standard by PLD users."

A Super Highway For Bandwidth Intensive Applications

The Corex-V10 is the world's first commercially available PCI-X core. It has been developed by DCM's highly skilled design team. Corex-V10 comes with a PCI-X test bench. The test bench provides users a complete test environment allowing them to fully test their PCI-X based product. DCM Technologies recognizes that support forms a crucial part in the success of any IP program and has thus put together a comprehensive support services program. This program allows users to choose the level of support they need for their program.

The new Corex-V10 core meets the PCI-X 1.0 and PCI 2.2 specifications for the highest bandwidth performance. It supports peak transfer rates of up to 1.0 Gbytes/second in both Master and Target Mode. The core implements 64/32 bit, 133 MHz PCI-X functions. It features a local bus interface and is capable of supporting a fully synchronous design. Corex-V10 can be used to migrate 64/32 bit, 66/33 MHz designs to PCI-X.

According to Anil Tickoo, DCM's marketing manager, "DCM has been working with the world's leading technology companies for over a decade now to help them bring the most advanced technologies to market. We are now applying our exceptional design services skills and our technical expertise to produce IPs that will help companies move quickly and confidently into current and emerging technology markets."

Availability and Pricing

DCM's Corex-V10 core is available now. The Corex-V10 ranges in price from US $50K to US $300K depending upon the configuration. The product deliverables are packaged into a single CD consisting of: -0-

1.   Netlist / Source code
2.   High level testbench code
3.   Synthesis script
4.   User guide

About PCI-X

The PCI-X bus technology is the result of collaboration between Compaq, Hewlett Packard and IBM to address the increased I/O demands of technologies such as Fiber Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, and Ultra3 SCSI. The PCI-X 1.0 spec became an industry standard in September 1999.

PCI-X capabilities include:

--   Up to 133 MHz bus speed and 64-bit bandwidth, enabling up to 1
     GB/sec peak throughput.

--   Efficient bus operation for easier interfacing with memory
     controllers, bridges and future packet-protocol I/O
     specifications.

--   Split transactions allowing an initiator device to make only one
     data request and relinquish the bus, rather than constantly
     polling the bus for a response.

--   Byte count enabling initiator to specify in advance the specific
     number of bytes requested, eliminating the inefficiency of
     speculative prefetches.

--   Backward compatibility enabling investment protection by allowing
     "standard" PCI cards to be used on the PCI-X bus.

About DCM Technologies

DCM Technologies is part of the DCM Group-- one of India's leading industrial conglomerates. DCM Technologies provides design and verification services to the world's leading high-technology companies in the areas of ASIC/PLD designs, system software and communication software. DCM's highly skilled and experienced engineers have worked closely with technology leaders to help them keep pace with increasing product complexity and tight market windows. DCM Technologies has headquarters in New Delhi India and sales and marketing offices in USA and Japan. More information on DCM can be obtained on the World Wide Web at http://www.dcmtech.com.