Lucent Technologies Unveils 3V Fast Ethernet ICs; Lucent and Enable Semiconductor To Serve As Alternate Suppliers.ALLENTOWN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 1998--Lucent Technologies' Microelectronics Group today announced the addition of three-volt single- and multi-channel Fast Ethernet An earlier name for 100Mbps Ethernet. See 100Base-T. (networking) Fast Ethernet - A version of Ethernet developed in the 1990s(?) which can carry 100 Mbps compared with standard Ethernet's 10 Mbps. It requires upgraded network cards and hubs. transceivers to its FASTCAT FASTCAT For Automated Search of the Catalog (tm) Ethernet IC product line. The new chips, which will be sampling in the second half of the year, join Lucent's five-volt integrated transceivers and quad-channel 10/100 Mbps devices in the FASTCAT line. The 5V chips entered volume production earlier this year, and the company has shipped more than 4 million 100 Mbps ports of capacity to date. Building on a licensing agreement between Lucent and Enable Semiconductor, Inc., the two companies will serve as alternate suppliers of single channel 5V as well as single, quad, hex, and octal A numbering system that uses eight digits. It is used as a shorthand method for representing binary characters that use six-bits. Each three bits (half a character) is converted into a single octal digit. Okta is Greek for 8. 3V Fast Ethernet integrated circuits. "By serving as alternate suppliers of these products, we will make it easier for data networking designers and manufacturers to get the components they need, when they need them," said Jim Tann, vice president of sales and marketing for Enable Semiconductor. "We expect to serve our customers by more than doubling our FASTCAT Ethernet transceiver product offerings within the year based on our relationship with Enable," said Mark Hunsicker, Ethernet products director with Lucent's Microelectronics Group. Customers attending the Networld+Interop trade show in Las Vegas can learn more about the new products from Lucent and Enable representatives at Enable Semiconductor's booth #3081. Enable Semiconductor is a privately held fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. which designs and markets leading-edge digital and mixed-signal CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. integrated circuits. Its headquarters are in San Jose, Calif. Additional information can be found on the world wide web at http://www.enablesemi.com. Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronic components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit its web site at http://www.lucent.com. Lucent's Microelectronics Group designs and manufactures integrated circuits and optoelectronic components for the computer and communications industries. More information about the Microelectronics Group is available from its web site at http://www.lucent.com/micro. -0- Additional Technical Information Lucent's FASTCAT(tm) Fast Ethernet and Ethernet product line includes single- and multi-channel transceivers offering a broad range of functionality tailored to serve the NIC (1) (Network Interface Card) See network adapter. See also InterNIC. (2) (New Internet Computer) An earlier Linux-based computer from The New Internet Computer Company (NICC), Palo Alto, CA. , repeater, and switched Ethernet Market segments: - Macrocells for ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. applications as well as standard products - 1, 4, 6, and 8 channel transceivers - Standard MII 1. (body) MII - A consortium of Microsoft, IBM, and Intel. 2. (storage) MII - A broadcast component video tape format licensed by Panasonic. as well as reduced-pin MII and switched MII - 5V and 3.3V operations - Single speed (10 or 100 Mbps) and combinations - Unshielded Adj. 1. unshielded - (used especially of machinery) not protected by a shield unprotected - lacking protection or defense twisted-pair and fiber-optic cables Several chips in the FASTCAT product line have been in production since the beginning of 1998. Lucent has already shipped a combined volume in excess of 4 million 100 Mbps ports. The product line includes the following devices: 5V applications - LU1X54, four-channel 10 Mbps transceiver supporting MII, MII management, and auto-negotiation. Status: in production. - LU2X54FT, four-channel, 100 Mbps transceiver, supporting 100Base-TX and FX and a bused-MII configuration for repeater applications. Status: in production. - LU3X54FT, four-channel, 10/100 Mbps transceiver, supporting 100Base-TX and FX, port-switching for dual-speed repeater applications, and a 10-pin reduced-pin MII on each port. Status: in production. - LU3X51FT-T100, single-channel, 10/100 Mbps transceiver supporting 100Base-TX and FX (100-pin TQFP See QFP. ). Status: in production. - LU3X51FT-J80 single-channel, 10/100 Mbps transceiver supporting 100Base-TX and FX (80-pin MQFP See QFP. . Status: sampling. - LU6612, single-channel, 10/100 Mbps transceiver supporting 100Base-TX and FX. This device is pin compatible with Quality's QS6612. Status: in production. 3.3V applications - LU3X54FTL (Flash Translation Layer) See flash memory. four-channel, 10/100 Mbps transceiver, supporting 100Base-TX and FX, port-switching for dual-speed repeater applications, 3.3V MII, and a 10-pin reduced-pin MII on each port (208-pin SQFP See QFP. ). Status: sampling. - LU3X31FT, single-channel, 10/100 Mbps transceiver supporting 100Base-TX and FX (80-pin MQFP). Status: sampling in July 1998. - LU3X34 four-channel, 10/100 Mbps transceiver, supporting 100Base-TX and FX, port-switching for dual-speed repeater applications, and a standard MII or 6-pin reduced-pin MII on each port (208-pin SQFP). Status: sampling in September 1998. - LU3X36FTR FTR Fighter FTR For The Record FTR Federal Travel Regulation FTR Formal Technical Review FTR Full Text Retrieval FTR Financial Transmission Right FTR Florida Trail Riders (motorcycling) FTR Full-Time Regular six-channel, 10/100 Mbps transceiver, supporting 100Base-TX and FX, and port-switching for dual-speed repeater applications (208-pin SQFP). Status: sampling in September 1998. - LU3X36FTS FTS facteur thymique sérique. six-channel, 10/100 Mbps transceiver, supporting 100Base-TX and FX, and a 6-pin reduced-pin MII on each port (208-pin SQFP). Status: sampling in September 1998. - LU3X36FT six-channel, 10/100 Mbps transceiver, supporting 100Base-TX and FX, and a standard MII or 6-pin reduced-pin MII on each port (256-pin TQFP). Status: sampling in September 1998. - LU3X38FTS eight-channel, 10/100 Mbps transceiver, supporting 100Base-TX and FX, and a 6-pin reduced-pin MII on each port. Status: sampling in December 1998. - LU3X38FTR eight-channel, 10/100 Mbps transceiver, supporting 100Base-TX and FX, and port-switching for dual-speed repeater applications. Status: sampling in December 1998. CONTACT: Carl Blesch Lucent Technologies 908-508-8412 (office) 908-306-0784 (home) cblesch@lucent.com or Sandy Kitagawa Enable Semiconductor, Inc. 408-437-3388 x225 (office) 408-437-3380 (fax) skitagawa@enablesemi.com |
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