IDT Introduces New High-Density, 36-Bit FIFOs Achieving 4-Mbit Configurations; Market Leader Extends Leading Line of 36-Bit FIFO Memories.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 5, 1998--IDT (Nasdaq:IDTI IDTI Integrated Device Technology Inc ), the industry's leading supplier of first-in/first-out (FIFO (First In First Out) A storage method that retrieves the item stored for the longest time. Contrast with LIFO. See traffic engineering methods. FIFO - first-in first-out ) memories, today introduced a new line of high-density, 36-bit FIFOs available in densities up to 4 Mbit -- 64 times larger than any 36-bit solution currently available. The new high-density SyncFIFO(tm) memories, offered at 100-MHz speeds, deliver the industry's best price/performance ratio In economics and engineering, the price/performance ratio refers to a product's ability to deliver performance, of any sort, for its price. For instance, if you have a whole day to travel 100 km, spending $50 to do the journey in two hours is a better price/performance ratio than and are ideal solutions for performance-demanding markets, such as data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. , telecommunications and digital video, where smaller FIFOs often cannot meet system requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. . In addition, 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 also unveiled 3.3-volt versions of its existing market-leading, 36-bit SyncFIFOs, previously available at 5-volts. The new 3.3-volt SyncFIFOs, combined with the introduction of the new high-density devices, represent the widest range of 36-bit FIFOs available and expand IDT's position as the leader in FIFO technology. "Emerging products such as our new Raster Image Processor See RIP. Remember... try the acronym first! (application, printer) Raster Image Processor - (RIP) A device (usually hardware but can be software) that takes a Page Description Language description of a page and converts it into a bitmap for printing. for the color prepress market are requiring extremely dense solutions that can capture and buffer large amounts of data," said Matthew Proujansky, vice president of engineering at RamPage Systems Inc. "The availability of a high-density FIFO that can meet our requirements of depth, width and speed will provide us with significant advantages over current options, in terms of price, performance and reliability. IDT has delivered what we consider an extremely effective solution." "Our new 36-bit FIFOs deliver exceptional performance, depth and functionality at an unprecedented price," said Mario Montana, IDT's strategic marketing manager of FIFO products. "We talked to a wide range of customers and believe we have developed the optimum 36-bit solutions for data-intensive applications such as gigabit-Ethernet routers, wideband CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. base stations, high-speed switches, cable modems cable modem Modem used to convert analog data signals to digital form and vise versa, for transmission or receipt over cable television lines, especially for connecting to the Internet. and high-definition TV See HDTV. encoders. "Many of these applications cannot use smaller FIFOs and have relied on SRAMs and/or custom ASICs to handle buffering tasks. Our new high-density FIFOs deliver superior price/performance over all existing solutions targeted at those applications, as well as a significant time-to-market advantage over an ASIC/SRAM-based solution." High-Density 36-Bit FIFOs The new high-density, unidirectional The transfer or transmission of data in a channel in one direction only. , 36-bit FIFOs, which range in densities from 128 Kbit to 4 Mbit and word depths from 4 K to 128 K, use 3.3-volt supplies and are tolerant of 5-volt inputs. The devices operate at 100 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. and are the industry's first FIFOs to provide bus matching on both the read and write ports, enabling each port to be configured at a x9, x18 or x36 width. This feature, combined with the FIFOs' independent read and write clocks, is extremely important for video, telecommunications and data communications applications where large amounts of data need to be simultaneously buffered and moved through busses of varying widths on each port. The bus-matching feature also makes the new FIFOs cost-effective for applications requiring a high-performance 64-bit microprocessor or a 32-bit 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 , such as the Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. C6x Family. Additional features of the new FIFOs include: selectable asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. versus synchronous partial flag timing modes, useful when interfacing to the TI C6x DSP Family; low first-word latency; a zero-latency retransmit Verb 1. retransmit - transmit again channel, transmit, carry, impart, conduct, convey - transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" function; partial reset; endian See byte order. (data, architecture) endian - Suffix used in the terms big-endian and little-endian that describe the ordering of bytes in a multi-byte number. select; and optional first-word fall-through (FWFT) or IDT Standard timing modes. 3.3-Volt 36-Bit SyncFIFOs The new lower-power versions of IDT's 36-bit SyncFIFO devices are also 5-volt tolerant and include unidirectional, bidirectional The ability to move, transfer or transmit in both directions. and triple bus configurations, and bus matching features. Bus-matching SyncFIFOs buffer data from a 36-bit wide bus on one side and a 36-, 18- or 9-bit bus on the other side. In addition, the bidirectional versions provide a significant reduction in board space through bus sharing for data transfers. Other features of the 3.3-volt, 36-bit SyncFIFOs include: byte-swapping; endian select; low first-word latency; FWFT/IDT Standard timing modes; and a mailbox A simulated mailbox in the computer that holds e-mail messages. Mailboxes are stored on disk as a file of messages, a database of messages or as an individual file for each message. The standard mailboxes are usually In, Out, Trash and Junk (Spam). option that allows data to bypass the FIFO without putting it in the queue. Pricing and Availability All of the high-density, 36-bit FIFOs and 3.3-volt SyncFIFOs are currently sampling, with production units available in Q4CY98. -0- Part Configuration Speed Pin/Pkg Samples Number (ns) Available -------------------------------------------------------------------- HIGH-DENSITY, 3.3-VOLT 36-BIT FIFOs 72V3660 4Kx36 SyncFIFO 10, 15, 20 128-TQFP Now 72V3670 8Kx36 SyncFIFO 10, 15, 20 128-TQFP Now 72V3680 16Kx36 SyncFIFO 10, 15, 20 128-TQFP Now 72V3690 32Kx36 SyncFIFO 10, 15, 20 128-TQFP Now 72V36100 64Kx36 SyncFIFO 10, 15, 20 128-TQFP Now 72V36110 128Kx36 SyncFIFO 10, 15, 20 128-TQFP Now Production Price/Qty Available At 10kU ------------------------ November $48.90 November $58.60 November $70.00 November $83.70 November $91.20 November $96.70 Part Configuration Speed Pin/Pkg Samples Number (ns) Available -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.3-VOLT, 36-BIT FIFOs UNIDIRECTIONAL 72V3611 64x36 SyncFIFO 15, 20 120-TQFP/132-PQF Now 72V3631 512x36 SyncFIFO 15, 20 120-TQFP/132-PQF Now 72V3641 1Kx36 SyncFIFO 15, 20 120-TQFP/132-PQF Now 72V3651 2Kx36 SyncFIFO 15, 20 120-TQFP/132-PQF Now Production Price/Qty Available At 10kU ------------------------ October $18.50 November $35.00 November $41.20 November $50.40 Part Configuration Speed Pin/Pkg Samples Number (ns) Available -------------------------------------------------------------------- UNIDIRECTIONAL WITH BUS MATCHING 72V3613 64x36 SyncFIFO 15, 20 120-TQFP/132-PQF Now 72V3623 256x36 SyncFIFO 15, 20 128-TQFP Now 72V3633 512x36 SyncFIFO 15, 20 128-TQFP Now 72V3643 1Kx36 SyncFIFO 15, 20 128-TQFP Now Production Price/Qty Available At 10kU ------------------------ November $18.50 October $26.90 October $32.50 October $38.40 Part Configuration Speed Pin/Pkg Samples Number (ns) Available -------------------------------------------------------------------- BIDIRECTIONAL 72V3612 64x36x2 SyncFIFO 15, 20 120-TQFP/132-PQF Now 72V3622 256x36x2 SyncFIFO 15, 20 120-TQFP/132-PQF Now 72V3632 512x36x2 SyncFIFO 15, 20 120-TQFP/132-PQF Now 72V3642 1Kx36x2 SyncFIFO 15, 20 120-TQFP/132-PQF Now Production Price/Qty Available At 10kU ------------------------ October $23.75 October $32.15 October $41.05 October $53.00 Part Configuration Speed Pin/Pkg Samples Number (ns) Available -------------------------------------------------------------------- BIDIRECTIONAL WITH BUS MATCHING 72V3614 64x36x2 SyncFIFO 15, 20 120-TQFP/132-PQF Now 72V3624 256x36x2 SyncFIFO 15, 20 128-TQFP Now 72V3634 512x36x2 SyncFIFO 15, 20 128-TQFP Now 72V3644 1Kx36x2 SyncFIFO 15, 20 128-TQFP Now Production Price/Qty Available At 10kU ------------------------ October $24.05 October $29.30 October $38.70 October $53.70 Part Configuration Speed Pin/Pkg Samples Number (ns) Available -------------------------------------------------------------------- TRIPLE BUS 72V3626 256x36x2 SyncFIFO 15, 20 128-TQFP Now 72V3636 512x36x2 SyncFIFO 15, 20 128-TQFP Now 72V3646 1Kx36x2 SyncFIFO 15, 20 128-TQFP Now Production Price/Qty Available At 10kU ------------------------ November $29.30 November $38.70 November $53.70 IDT's FIFO Commitment As the market and volume production leader for all FIFO products, IDT offers more than 200 FIFO solutions to suit a broad range of applications. IDT continues to strengthen its leadership position in the FIFO market both through ongoing product improvements and by introducing innovative products that address customer needs. IDT's asynchronous, synchronous and specialty FIFO architectures were the first to hit the market and have since captured more than 60 percent of the FIFO market. About IDT IDT enables a digitally connected world by providing innovative semiconductor solutions to leading-edge designers in communications and computing. IDT's broad product mix consists of communications memories, networking devices, both RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. and x86 microprocessors, high-speed SRAMs and high-performance logic. The company's innovative technologies and products take aim at markets expected to exceed a total of $20 billion in 1998. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., the company employs approximately 5,000 people worldwide and has manufacturing facilities in California, Oregon, the Philippines and Malaysia. IDT stock is traded on the Nasdaq stock market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. under the symbol "IDTI." Additional information about IDT is easily accessible through the World Wide Web (www.idt.com) and CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). by calling 800/345-7015. Note to Editors: SyncFIFO is a trademark of 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. All other brands or products are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. IDT, Inc. disclaims any proprietary interest in the trademarks of others. |
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