Industry's First Dual-CPU Network Processor Brings Enterprise Systems to Homes and Small Businesses.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- StorLink Semiconductors, Inc.: --Patent-Pending Device is Industry's Lowest Power Network Processor --75 Man Years of Bundled Software Reduces System Development Time StorLink Semiconductors, Inc. today announced the Gemini family of network processors that includes the SL3518, which is the industry's first dual-CPU Network Processor with integrated peripherals. The family packs the processing power and integration needed to design systems that can manage the high-speed data and video that are streaming through fiber connections into homes and small businesses (i.e., SOHO/SMB markets) at speeds of 100 Mb/s to 1 Gb/s. The patent-pending SL3518 provides 800 MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. (400 MIPS per CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. ) of 32-bit processing power with a dual-bus architecture that allows engineers to design Internet Protocol Set Top boxes, Voice over Internet Protocol Gateways, Media Servers with RAID, Network Attached Storage (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ) and Gigabit Router Gateways. Each device in the Gemini family comes with application software that speeds development and shortens time to market. According to Dr. Stewart Wu, President and 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. of StorLink Semiconductors, Inc., "The home and small businesses now need systems that were once used exclusively in large enterprises. With fiber optic links now coming to the neighborhood and directly into the home, the Internet is becoming a fountain of data with rates that are capable of reaching 100 Mb/s to 1 Gb/s per household. These massive multimedia data streams contain television video, radio programs, digital photographs, digital books and telephone conversations. The volume of data is now reaching the point where a home-router gateway is needed to store and distribute these vast amounts of data among the many computers that reside in the home. "Enterprise technology such as RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks - Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks ) is now needed to protect home mass storage which holds precious digital data such as family photographs and videos. Making this enterprise technology priced for homes and small business has required a major step in both integration and software development. Our seasoned team of semiconductor and software engineers has met this challenge by packing the processing power and functions into a chip along with the protocol software which eliminates a major cost in system design." The SL3518 is a mixed-signal device that represents a major milestone in the design of Systems-on-Chip (SOC) by integrating functions such as a TV controller, dual Gigabit Media Access Controllers, dual USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. 2.0 interfaces, PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). interface, dual IDE (PATA (Parallel ATA) Refers to the original ATA (IDE) technology that uses a parallel data channel from the controller to the disk drives. After Serial ATA drives became popular, the PATA term was coined to specifically refer to the parallel drives. See IDE and SATA. and SATA) hard-drive controllers, DDR memory controller and a proprietary NetEngine(TM) TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. protocol accelerator. The device improves system reliability and eliminates the need for a fan by consuming only 1.5 Watt. Availability and Price The dual-CPU SL3518 is sampling now with full production in September. The device is priced at $19 in a 400-pin, FBGA (Fine Ball Grid Array “BGA” redirects here. For other uses, see BGA (disambiguation). A ball grid array (BGA) is a type of surface-mount packaging used for integrated circuits. ) in quantities of 10,000. The single-CPU SL3516 is sampling now with full production in September. The device is priced at $17 in a 400-pin, FBGA (Fine Ball Grid Array) in quantities of 10,000. The SL3512 which is also a single-CPU with reduced peripherals targeted for router gateway and Network Attached Storage applications. It is sampling now with full production in September. The device is priced at $14 in a 324-pin, FBGA (Fine Ball Grid Array) in quantities of 10,000. Reader Contact StorLink Semiconductors, Inc. is located at 1235 Pear Avenue, Suite 109, Mountain View, CA 94043-1348. Telephone: (650) 988-0700. Fax: (408) 228-6471 Website: www.storlinksemi.com About StorLink Semiconductors, Inc. StorLink Semiconductors, Inc. is a privately held fabless semiconductor design company that develops high performance and cost effective IC solutions for the gigabit networking and consumer electronics applications. Founded in 2002 by Dr. Stewart Wu, a former executive at Broadcom Corporation, the company continues to develop innovative hardware and software products that enable the convergence of data, voice, video, gaming in networking and storage. Gemini, NetEngine, CentriNAS, CentriMedia, Centroid centroid In geometry, the centre of mass of a two-dimensional figure or three-dimensional solid. Thus the centroid of a two-dimensional figure represents the point at which it could be balanced if it were cut out of, for example, sheet metal. are trademarks of StorLink Semiconductors, Inc. |
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