inSilicon Delivers PCI-X Synthesizable Core and Test Environment for High-Speed I/O Designs; Highly Configurable Core Enables Up to 1GB/s Throughput.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2000 inSilicon Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Phoenix Technologies, Ltd. (Nasdaq:PTEC PTEC Pinellas Technical Education Centers (Clearwater, FL) PTEC Pharmacy Technician Educators Council PTEC Psychiatric Technician PTEC Plastics Technical Evaluation Center PTEC Page Table Edit Control ) and provider of communications and connectivity semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) and software, today announced the availability of its TymeWare(tm) PCI-X (PCI eXtended) An enhanced PCI bus technology originally developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that is backward compatible with existing PCI cards. PCI and 32-bit PCI-X slots are physically the same, and PCI cards can plug into PCI-X slots. design package. TymeWare's system is comprised of a PCI-X 1.0-compliant synthesizable core and bus test environment. inSilicon's PCI-X core, a set of RTL (Register Transfer Level) A high-level hardware description language (HDL) for defining digital circuits. The circuits are described as a collection of registers, Boolean equations, control logic such as "if-then-else" statements as well as complex event sequences; synthesizable building blocks, enables 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. and FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. designers to implement a complete PCI-X interface. The TymeWare PCI-X design package is built on technology that has been proven in more than 200 core-based PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). designs. "The demand for higher performance as well as backward compatible I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output solutions for multiprocessor servers, Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel and embedded networking is propelling the adoption of PCI-X by leading-edge hardware developers," said Mike Housholder, PCI-X product marketing manager and member of the PCI Steering Committee. "Our highly flexible and configurable core, combined with our comprehensive test environment, provides a natural migration path for next-generation datacom, telecom and PC/server applications." Enabling the design of systems and devices that can operate at speeds significantly higher than current PCI specification allows, PCI-X provides backward-compatibility by allowing devices to operate at conventional 33-MHz and 66-MHz bus speeds. Backward compatibility to the PCI Local Bus 2.2 Specification, the suite also supports up to 32 split transactions, boosting system performance with more efficient data transfers. PCI-X also supports up to 133-MHz bus clock frequencies, the PCI-X core and test environment enables up to 1GB/s throughput.
Product Specific Features and Benefits
-- PCI-X/PCI 2.2 protocol and timing requirements -- All are handled
by the core, which is controlled through a configurable
application interface.
-- Direct support for both multiplexed and demultiplexed processor
buses -- Enables optimization between device performance and pin
count.
-- RapidScript(tm) feature -- Facilitates tailoring of the core to
suit user application requirements and eliminate unwanted
features.
-- Configurable features include split transactions, base address
registers, PCI power management, multifunction devices, message
signaled interrupts and an EEPROM configuration interface.
Package and Availability The PCI-X test environment includes behavioral models of PCI-X/PCI 2.2 master and target devices, a PCI-X/PCI 2.2 arbiter to control bus access, and a protocol and timing monitor to check for and report PCI-X/PCI 2.2 protocol and timing violations. In addition, the test environment includes a full suite of compliance test scenarios that verify functionality and compliance with the PCI-X and PCI 2.2 specifications. inSilicon's complete TymeWare PCI-X design package includes the PCI-X core and test environment (in Verilog source code), synthesis scripts, compliance test suites, documentation, technical support and a three-day training class. TymeWare PCI-X is available now from inSilicon. About inSilicon inSilicon Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Phoenix Technologies Ltd., is a provider of communications and connectivity semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) and software. inSilicon offers SIP and system software that speed customer time-to-market for systems-on-chip and embedded systems designs. The Company's communications standards-based, silicon-proven SIP solutions for Ethernet, VCI VCI Verband Der Chemischen Industrie (German: federation of chemical Industries) VCI Virtual Channel Identifier (used in Asynchronous Transfer Mode) VCI Veterinary Council of India VCI Virtual-Circuit Identifier , 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. , IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 1394 PCI-X, PCI, IrDA, and AGP deliver high system efficiency, interoperability, and performance. Created as the Semiconductor IP Group of Phoenix Technologies Ltd. by the integration of Virtual Chips, Sand Microelectronics, and the Interconnect Firmware Group of Award software, inSilicon was formed as an independent company by Phoenix Technologies in 1999. Designers can download and evaluate sample cores at http://www.in-silicon.com Note to Editors: inSilicon is a trademark of inSilicon Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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