SiberCore Delivers Industry's First Plug and Play Co-Processor Solution for the Intel IXP2400 Development Platform.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers Network Processors Conference West 2002 Booth #516 TCAM (TeleCommunications Access Method) IBM communications software widely used to transfer data between mainframes and 3270 terminals. See access method. Modular Card and Classification Software Simplify Design and Improve Performance SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 2002 SiberCore Technologies today announced that its plug and play co-processor solution has been fully tested and integrated with the Intel(R) IXP (1) (Internet EXchange Processor) See IXA. (2) (Internet eXchange Point) A public junction point on the Internet that provides an on-ramp to the Internet as well as a location for carriers to exchange traffic. 2400 development platform. The SCTB SCTB Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish 2409-B TCAM modular card, software development kit (SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). ) and reference software provide customers with a complete solution that simplifies design and improves performance of OC-48 and OC-192 equipment such as metro, edge and core routers and Enterprise LAN switches. The SCTB2409-B modular card includes a SiberCAM Ultra-9M co-processor, providing 9Mb of 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. 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. (TCAM), and 32Mb of associated and indirection Not direct. Indirection provides a way of accessing instructions, routines and objects when their physical location is constantly changing. The initial routine points to some place, and, using hardware and/or software, that place points to some other place. data SRAM See static RAM. SRAM - static random-access memory for forwarding and classification storage. The card is supplied with SiberCore's SDK, which includes a cycle-accurate Foreign Object Model (FOM FOM Figure Of Merit FOM Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (Dutch organization for fundamental research of matter) FOM Formula One Management (racing) FOM Field Operations Manual ) for the Microengine Development Environment of the Intel(R) Internet Exchange Architecture Internet Exchange Architecture (acronym: IXA) is a chip set and framework produced by Intel Corporation used by manufacturers to design customised network processors. Introduced in 1999, the first model was based on the StrongARM processor. Software Development Kit (IXA (1) (Integrated XSeries Adapter) See IXS. (2) (Internet EXchange Architecture) A family of chips from Intel that are designed to enable network device manufacturers to build custom systems. SDK) 3.0, as well as software for the Intel(R) Xscale(TM) control plane and microengine data plane. The SCTB2409-B modular card plugs directly onto the Intel IXP2400 development platform through the QDR QDR Quadrennial Defense Review (US DoD) QDR Quad Data Rate (Memory Technology) QDR Quality Deficiency Report QDR Quality, Durability and Reliability (Toyota Motor Company) SRAM/Network Processing Forum LA-1 interface. The solution will be demonstrated at the NPC 1. (complexity) NPC - NP-complete. 2. (architecture) NPC - Next Program Counter. West show, booth #516. Industry's most complete SDK eases system design, speeds time-to-market SiberCore's FOM provides a C-model of the TCAM, which simulates all internal registers and instructions with a flexible simulator control, including clock frequency ratios, lookup latency parameters, and output trace and lookup states. The FOM allows design teams to debug microengine data plane applications and measure system performance. The simulation model is provided as a Windows 2000 dynamic link library A set of program routines that can be called at runtime as needed. See DLL. dynamic link library - Dynamically Linked Library (DLL (1) See data link layer. (2) (Dynamic Link Library) An executable program module in Windows that performs one or more functions at runtime. DLLs are not launched by the user; they are called for by an executable program or by other DLLs. ), and is customizable to meet requirements of multiple system configurations. SiberCore's modular and layered control plane application programming interface (API) provides control, 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. , search and maintenance functions for the Intel IXP2400 network processor. The data plane software is written in native assembly language, and includes a cycle- and data-accurate simulation model, viewer, software debug tools, and a complete set of macros for search and maintenance functions in the packet processing fast-path. It also provides a behavioral model, which emulates the SiberCore device, used for debugging control plane applications. The library will run on VxWorks and Linux operating systems. "Our close collaboration with Intel has accelerated our leadership in the network co-processor market," said Graham Allan, Director of Marketing, SiberCore Technologies. "We are the only co-processor vendor to offer a hardware and software development solution that has been fully tested and verified in silicon. We are now passing this leadership to our customers, ensuring that system prototypes will migrate seamlessly to manufactured solutions." Forwarding and classification software reduces clock cycles by up to 60 percent SiberCore's TCAM solution provides software code to perform IPv4 forwarding and header checks in addition to classification, thereby reducing clock cycles by as much as 60% compared to memory-based algorithmic solutions. The savings includes lower instruction counts and latency bounds, which can be utilized by designers to implement further revenue generating applications in the system. Reduced latency and bus loading also eases board layout for efficient system design. "The addition of SiberCore's TCAM card and software suite to the Intel IXP2400 development platform provides our customers with the additional capabilities for a variety of applications and will help systems to market quickly," said Nick Finamore, General Manager, Network Processor Division, Intel Corporation. The SiberCore co-processing hardware and FOM function seamlessly with either Intel IXP2400 or IXP2800 network processor. Using the SiberCore solution, system designers can maximize the engineering development reuse in designs that transition from the Intel IXP2400 to the IXP2800 network processor. This maximizes code portability and dramatically reduces time-to-market for new designs. SiberCore is a participating member of the Intel(R) IXA Developers Network, which ensures that customers have access to the industry's leading packet forwarding and classification co-processors. SiberCAM packet management solutions for network processors SiberCore offers the widest range of TCAMs on the market, with pin-compatible 2M, 9M, 18M and future 36M devices. The family is designed for optimal performance and efficiency, with a unique three-port interface, dynamic variable word width support, and a very efficient low-power design. The company's SiberCAM devices and forwarding and classification co-processing solutions interface to most industry network processors, and are designed to scale for next-generation system requirements. Availability The SiberCore SCTB2409-B TCAM modular card is available now, and is priced at US $2400. The SiberCore SDK is also available now, supported by extensive written documentation, including user guides, user manuals, and data plane macro library. About SiberCore Technologies SiberCore Technologies is a fabless communications semiconductor company providing silicon-based packet management products and solutions to the Internet infrastructure market. The Company's initial products are packet forwarding engines, based on Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM) technology, that are designed to overcome the most onerous performance bottlenecks in the data communications market -- packet forwarding and classification. SiberCore's unique architectural and design innovations give the SiberCAM family of products significant advantages in terms of capacity, speed, feature set and power reduction. SiberCore is located in Ottawa, Canada's high technology capital. The company's web site is located at www.sibercore.com. SiberCore and SiberCAM are trademarks of SiberCore Technologies. Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. All other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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