Fulcrum's PivotPoint Interconnect Selected By GDA Technologies for High-Performance AdvancedTCA Board
Posted on: Thursday, 3 March 2005, 12:00 CST
Switched Interconnect Allows Company to Offer Single or Dual-Processor Options Without Separate Board Designs
Fulcrum Microsystems today announced more success with AdvancedTCA (ATCA) system designs with the selection of its PivotPoint FM1020 as the interconnect switch for GDA Technologies Inc.'s ATCA-G2800 dual-processor network access system.
GDA, a fast-growing supplier of silicon intellectual property and electronic design services, chose the FM1020, a three-port SPI-4.2 crossbar switch chip, to give the ATCA-G2800 the flexibility to utilize one network processor (NPU) or two depending upon a customer's application. Without the capabilities of a switched interconnect, GDA would have needed to manufacture separate single-processor and dual-processor boards to offer this flexibility.
"The ATCA standard epitomizes the next generation of network equipment because it is designed for high speed, complex data flows, and configuration flexibility -- thus, it makes a great showcase for PivotPoint's ability to transparently enable configurable data paths, and manage board-level modularity," said Mike Zeile, Fulcrum Microsystems' vice president of marketing. "GDA's design is a great example of what an innovative company can do with this standard."
"GDA is rapidly becoming the development partner of choice for a wide range of OEMs due to the advanced technology and performance we can deliver in products like the ATCA-G2800," said Gopa Periyadan, Vice President & GM of System & Software Business Unit at GDA Technologies. "We value the flexibility that PivotPoint provides our products because it allows us to respond quickly to the needs of our customers."
The ATCA-G2800 is targeted at carrier network access and edge networking applications. The board is designed with one Intel IXP 2800 NPU, but it can be configured with a second IXP 2800 allowing customers to program the board for a variety of applications ranging from a security server for wire-speed data decryption or encryption, or as a line-card aggregator taking in low speed inputs and multiplexing them into a high-speed output.
About PivotPoint
The PivotPoint interconnect switch family includes the six-interface FM1010 and the three-interface FM1020. Both PivotPoint devices feature an innovative asynchronous crossbar architecture, known as Nexus(R) that leverages the low-power and high-performance benefits of Fulcrum's asynchronous technology foundation, and seamlessly marries the asynchronous core with standard synchronous interfaces (SPI-4.2, JTAG, and a generic CPU interface). This unique globally asynchronous, locally synchronous (GALS) design delivers unparalleled performance and power efficiency, while allowing the device to be integrated into standard synchronous board designs.
About GDA Technologies, Inc.
GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading electronic design services (EDS) and silicon intellectual property (SIP) solution provider for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA specializes in designing ASICs, FPGAs, IPs, boards, SoCs, software and complete systems from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of desktop, server, and embedded computing, digital audio and video applications, Internet appliances, and voice and data networking applications. In the IP front, GDA has been the leading solution provider for fast interconnect technologies such as PCI Express, HyperTransport, RapidIO, Ethernet and Advanced Switching with many licenses sold in compute, networking and communication markets. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com.
About Fulcrum Microsystems
Founded in 2000, Fulcrum Microsystems Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company. Building on research from California Institute of Technology, Fulcrum is developing a series of standards-based chips leveraging its patented high-performance, low-power "clockless" semiconductor design methodology. More information can be found at www.fulcrummicro.com.
Source: Business Wire
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