IDT And Texas Instruments Development Platform Enables Higher Performance and Faster Time to Market for 3G Wireless Base Station Designs.Enables Customers to Jumpstart Software Programming and Facilitate Early Prototyping SAN JOSE, Calif. -- IDT IDT Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA, USA) IDT I Don't Think IDT Identity Theft IDT Interrupt Descriptor Table IDT Integrated DNA Technologies IDT Inactive Duty Training IDT Instructional Design & Technology ([TM]) (Integrated Device Technology IDT (NASDAQ: IDTI) was founded in 1980 as a semiconductor vendor. Employing approximately 2500 people worldwide, headquartered in San Jose, California and operating a fab in Hillsboro, Oregon, the company both designs and fabricates semiconductor components. , Inc.; NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :IDTI IDTI Integrated Device Technology Inc ), a leading provider of vital semiconductor solutions, today announced achievement of full interoperability between the IDT pre-processing switch (PPS (Packets Per Second) The measurement of activity in a local area network (LAN). In LANs such as Ethernet, Token Ring and FDDI, as well as the Internet, data is broken up and transmitted in packets (frames), each with a source and destination address. ) and the highest performance digital signal processors (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 ) from Texas Instruments (TI). Through this strong collaboration, both IDT and TI developed a robust 3G base station development platform that speeds customer time to market by jumpstarting mission critical software programming and enabling rapid, early prototyping. These efforts enable IDT and TI to build-out the Serial RapidIO([R])ecosystem through the development of an interoperable baseband processing solution, providing wireless base station designers an excellent means to achieve higher-performance digital signal processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). . The development platform integrates the IDT PPS with four TI DSPs on an advanced mezzanine card Advanced Mezzanine Cards are printed circuit boards (PCBs) that follow a specification of the PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group (PICMG), with more than 100 companies participating. Known as AdvancedMC™, the official specification designation is AMC. (AMC), which simply plugs into a PC. "As our customers embark upon the next generation of challenging base station designs, known to take up to two years to develop, they've encouraged wireless base station vendors to ensure availability of a robust inventory of devices that are interoperable," stated Bill Beane, senior product manager for the IDT Flow-control Management Division. "Our collaboration with TI addresses these issues, and the resulting development platform conclusively demonstrates that the IDT PPS and the TI DSPs interoperate as required in a real system, while its software tools allow our customers to reduce their design development times." "Next generation cellular standards demand DSP-intensive base stations capable of delivering the high bandwidth required for advanced wireless services Advanced Wireless Services, also known as AWS-1, is a wireless telecommunications technology, used for mobile data services, video, and messaging. AWS-1 is used in the United States and replaces the spectrum formerly allocated to Multipoint Multichannel Distribution Service, , such as mobile video, at a competitive price," said John Smrstik, marketing manager for the Texas Instruments Communications Infrastructure and Voice Group. "IDT's pre-processing switch enables OEMs to gain the most efficient use of our DSPs' processing power." The Development Platform The AMC70K2000 development platform -- jointly created by IDT and TI -- offers a diverse mix of hardware options and software tailored for baseband processing demonstrations and development. The offering includes an AMC and all of the software necessary for rapid setup, initialization in·i·tial·ize tr.v. in·i·tial·ized, in·i·tial·iz·ing, in·i·tial·iz·es Computer Science 1. To set (a starting value of a variable). 2. To prepare (a computer or a printer) for use; boot. 3. , and on-site evaluation of the PPS capabilities. The platform enables realistic case studies for moving tasks and operations from the DSPs to the PPS and observing the system responses. The AMC deploys four fabric-connected TI DSPs (TMS320C6455/6482) and the IDT PPS (70K2000) offering a RapidIO interface of 40 lanes and 22 ports; accelerating each DSP in a cluster by up to 20 percent. It has a three Gigabit Ethernet backplane, one line I/O; DRAM DDR2 up to 128 Mbytes per DSP; flash storage (serial high speed) and I2C; JTAG (Joint Test Action Group) An IEEE standard for boundary scan technology. See scan technology. JTAG - Joint Test Action Group for system boot master, MMC; MMC control for IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) A protocol for monitoring server hardware for temperature, voltage, chassis intrusion, etc. Introduced in 1998 by Intel, HP, NEC and Dell, IPMI defines a standard set of messages for the characteristics of hardware with additional applications; and a local-power option for stand-alone operation. A built-in expansion port offers the ready addition of a daughter card supporting other Serial RapidIO endpoints, including the new IDT 10G serial buffer (see today's related announcement: "IDT Unveils 10G Serial Buffer to Enable Advanced DSP-Intensive Wireless Services for 3G and Beyond"). Pricing and Availability The development platform is currently shipping, and is priced at $5,995. For additional product information on the development platform, visit www.IDT.com. About IDT IDT is a world leader in developing and delivering vital semiconductor solutions that enable customers to accelerate innovation. IDT solutions help customers solve complex system design challenges associated with the evolving requirements of communications, computing and consumer applications. By leveraging its system knowledge and extensive blend of technologies, IDT is able to deliver essential solutions, including timing products, network search engines, flow-control management ICs and products for standards-based serial switching. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., IDT has design, manufacturing and sales facilities throughout the world. IDT stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market([R]) under the symbol "IDTI." Additional information about IDT is accessible at www.IDT.com. IDT and the IDT logo are trademarks of Integrated Device Technology, Inc. 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