MUSIC Semiconductors Showcases New PEP Architecture Chip Solutions at Networld+Interop 2001.Business Editors/High Tech Writers Networld+Interop 2001 Booth 8365 NOTE TO MEDIA: Graphics are available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com and at www.newstream.com LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2001 High Performance Packet Processors Speed Design of Next-Generation Routers and Switches When Networld+Interop opens its exhibition today, MUSIC Semiconductors, Inc. will be showcasing its new PEP(TM) (Packet Express Pipeline) architecture chip solutions at Booth No. 8365 at the Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. . In recent weeks, the Silicon Valley company unveiled the first two ASSP (Application Specific Standard Part) An ASIC chip that is designed as a generic device for a particular market. Whereas an ASIC is typically used only by its creator, ASSPs are used by many different companies in the design of their products. See ASIC. (application specific standard product) solutions for its new PEP architecture, designed to accelerate packet processing and boost the overall performance of next-generation routers and switches. "Over the past decade, we've led the industry in breadth of advanced solutions that accelerate packet processing functions in network systems," said Ed Miller, MUSIC president. "Our latest entries, which are designed to work with our new PEP architecture, underscore our commitment to expand upon our leadership position." Alto(TM) and Chorus(TM) Chip Families MUSIC's Alto(TM) family of packet schedulers, announced April 16th, is the first PEP architecture component. The Alto family features a chip that can schedule 65,536 queues across as many as 16 physical ports, performing each operation in no more than 150 nanoseconds. Moreover, the device supports a variety of scheduling algorithms, including Weighted Fair Queuing See traffic engineering methods. . Announced April 30th, MUSIC's new Chorus(TM) family of high-performance packet search coprocessors is led by a 9M chip that packs 9.4 million ternary (programming) ternary - A description of an operator taking three arguments. The only common example is C's ?: operator which is used in the form "CONDITION ? EXP1 : EXP2" and returns EXP1 if CONDITION is true else EXP2. data elements of content addressable memory See CAM. content addressable memory - (CAM, or "associative memory") A kind of storage device which includes comparison logic with each bit of storage. A data value is broadcast to all words of storage and compared with the values there. (CAM) in a single device, more than any other high-performance search engine. A 4.5M version contains 4.7 million ternary data elements. Both chips boast rates of over 100 million searches per second, and up to three operations per clock cycle. With circuitry designed especially to minimize power dissipation, the Chorus packet search coprocessors represent the highest density, lowest power devices in their class. Active Memory(TM) Technology Both the Alto and Chorus families use MUSIC's proprietary Active Memory(TM) technology to deliver the highest packet processing performance at the lowest power, while giving network equipment designers the greatest flexibility to achieve competitive differentiation. Moving a step beyond CAM, Active Memory technology interleaves memory with proprietary logic to give MUSIC devices a functionality and performance unmatched by solutions using SRAM See static RAM. SRAM - static random-access memory , DRAM or conventional CAM. MUSIC's PEP Architecture MUSIC's proprietary PEP architecture is designed to work with the company's broad choice of ASSP building blocks that streamline packet processing in Ethernet and ATM devices with wire speeds of up to 40 Gigabits per second. With the highly flexible PEP architecture, designers can use MUSIC's chips individually or in any combination to perform packet filtering See packet filter. , sorting, scheduling or searching. All PEP architecture chip solutions, including the Alto packet scheduler family and the Chorus search coprocessor coprocessor Additional processor used in some personal computers to perform specialized tasks such as extensive arithmetic calculations or processing of graphical displays. family, work together seamlessly. By using these high-performance ASSPs for packet processing, designers can minimize the time it takes to design, test and produce an 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. to manage specific packet processes, thereby speeding their products' time to market. Additionally, the PEP architecture features programmable engines that are optimized for packet processing and can be software-configured to achieve competitive differentiation in router and switch designs. All of MUSIC's PEP architecture chips can interface with network processors or off-the-shelf RISC processors. Whether used individually or together, these chip solutions not only speed packet processing, but also offload the network processor to perform other tasks, thereby adding another boost to overall system performance. MUSIC Semiconductors MUSIC Semiconductors, Inc. is a leading provider of advanced network chip solutions that accelerate crucial packet processing functions within routers and switches. The company's proprietary PEP architecture, combined with its broad portfolio of ASSPs, enables OEMs to substantially improve overall network performance while speeding time to market. Backed by an expert team of network applications engineers, MUSIC's ASSP portfolio includes chips that integrate advanced CAM with embedded microsequencer functions to streamline network equipment design. Most major network equipment providers--including Alcatel, Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Foundry, Juniper Networks Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) is an information technology company based in Sunnyvale, California and founded in 1996. The company designs and sells Internet Protocol network products and services. and Nortel Networks--have designed MUSIC's technology into land-based or wireless networking products. MUSIC Semiconductors is a privately held U.S. company that is majority owned by MUSIC Corporation, a publicly held holding company (PSE PSE 1. pale soft exudative pork. 2. portosystemic encephalopathy. :MUSX) based in the Philippines. For more information on MUSIC Semiconductors, Inc., visit www.musicsemi.com. Note: Graphics are available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.050801/bb1 http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.050801/bb1a |
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