Silicom is Now Shipping Unique CardBus Ethernet PC Card with full support of PC98 OnNow and ACPI for Advanced Power Saving.KFAR-SAVA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 11, 1999--Silicom Ltd. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : SILCF) today announced that the company has begun shipping its advanced CardBus Ethernet PC Card. The Silicom Ethernet CardBus PC Card (CBE CBE Commander of the Order of the British Empire (a Brit. title) CBE n abbr (= Companion of (the Order of) the British Empire) → tÃtulo de nobleza CBE n abbr (= ) provides a high throughput performance Ethernet connection. The Ethernet CardBus PC Card plugs into any Type II CardBus PC Card slot A socket for inserting a printed circuit board or a PC Card (CardBus card). See PC Card. , takes advantage of the 32-bit bus architecture and improves data transfer. The Silicom Ethernet CardBus PC Card is a real 3.3V product with improved power consumption modes. It supports the most advanced OnNow requirements for network and communication device class, including all wake-up events, as required by the Microsoft PC 98 specifications. The CBE is also fully compliant with the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface See ACPI. (hardware, standard) Advanced Configuration and Power Interface - (ACPI) An open industry standard developed by Intel, Microsoft, and Toshiba for configuration and power management. specifications (ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) A power management specification developed by Intel, Toshiba and Microsoft that makes hardware status information available to the operating system. ). "Silicom is once again proud to lead the market with a cost effective LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. solution which demonstrates advanced power management, faster information transfer and very low power consumption modes such as Snooze and No Link", said David Hendel, VP Research and Development at Silicom. "To guarantee the above we were the first company to complete a 32-bit, 3.3V, 10Mbps Ethernet CardBus PC Card product especially designed to offer the unbeatable combination of high performance, low power operation and low cost." Key features: -- 32-bit CardBus bus-mastering architecture speeds data transfers between your portable PC and the network, without burdening the PC's processor -- Very low power consumption - Real 3.3V product -- Superior Ethernet throughput performance - Early transmit and receive (Dynamic Pipelining) -- Reduced 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. utilization by implementation of interrupt migration on transmit and receive -- Supports PC98 network and communication device class OnNow requirements, including all wake-up events: Link change, Reception of a wake-up frame and Reception of a Magic Packet -- Complies with the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specifications -- Fully compliant with PCI Bus Power Management interface specifications -- Advanced power saving modes: Snooze and No Link -- Supports all major Network Operating Systems, including Windows 98, Windows NT5 (2000), Windows 95, Windows NT4 and more Silicom Ltd. is a leading provider of high performance connectivity solutions for portable computers. The Company offers a broad line of single and multi-function PC Card and CardBus products, with support for Fast Ethernet, Ethernet, Token Ring, 56Kbps modem, 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. and RS-232. More information about Silicom and its products may be found at www.silicom.co.il All registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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