EDN Access Names Silicon Access' iSPI, its SPI 4.2 Intellectual Property, to Top 100 Products of 2002.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 15, 2003

Silicon Access Networks, an industry leader in IC forwarding plane solutions, announced that its SPI 4.2 technology, licensed through its Intellectual Property Business Unit, has been chosen by EDN Access as one of its Top 100 Products of 2002. The Awards are chosen based upon reader response to the various products reviewed in EDN.

"Since the introduction of this IP, we have received a tremendous response from our customer base," said Vishal S. Kapoor, General Manager of the IP Business Unit for Silicon Access Networks. "This is a testament to the fact that we have had a silicon-proven solution for over 18 months with unique features such as a wide range of operation -- 600 Mbps to 1.6 Gbps per lane and automatic dynamic deskew."

SPI 4.2 is the chip-to-chip interface that the Optical Internetworking Forum's (OIF) recommends for datapath semiconductors, such as network processors and framers running at 10-Gbps data rates. The IP is licensed as SPI 4.2 Link Layer (iSPI-Link) and LVDS Physical Layer (iSPI-PHY) blocks. iSPI-Link will be delivered as encrypted Verilog. The iSPI-PHY will be delivered as a hard-macro for 0.13-micron TSMC process (CL013G). Silicon Access also offers customization including delivering to specific design requirements and porting to other processes.

About Silicon Access:

Silicon Access Networks, a communications semiconductor company, offers the only complete Data Path Processing Platform (DP3) solution for wide area, metropolitan and enterprise switching and routing applications. The iFlow DP3 solution delivers a quantum leap in performance and density over competing solutions. Founded in 1997, Silicon Access Networks is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with R&D facilities located in Ottawa. The company is a member of the Network Processing Forum (NPF), the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance, the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) and the ATM Forum. For more information, visit www.siliconaccess.com.

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