Infineon Technologies Introduces New Family of Standards Compliant Universal Switching ICs for cPCI-based xDSL and VoIP Systems
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 21, 2000--Infineon Technologies (FSE:IFX)(NYSE:IFX - news), a leader in telecommunication integrated circuit (IC) solutions, today announced its SWITI (SWITching IC) product family. Designed to connect the modular components of telecommunications switch and router devices, the SWITI product family supports traditional interconnect busses and new, industry standard interfaces for computer telephony applications that combine voice and data services in a single device.
Switching ICs play a key role in all types of telecommunications equipment, serving as the connection fabric across a backplane, or system bus, between all of the electronic components within the system. The SWITI product family can be used in typical Private Branch Exchange (PBX) and Central Office (CO) voice telecommunications switch applications, and in Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) systems implementing the H.100/H.110 interface. This is a standard telecom bus for use in systems offering combined voice and data services, including Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). SWITI ICs also can be used in mobile telephony base stations and other voice/data systems.
``The integration of computers and telecommunications has fueled an enormous growth in the communications markets. One of the most difficult challenges of computer-based telecommunications equipment is to manage interoperation of many different types of functions and coordinate the transportation of traffic across the electrical backplanes of switch and router systems,'' said Christian Wolff, vice president and general manager of Infineon's Access 1 business unit. ``The SWITI switching family of ICs supports both PCM and H.100/H.110 interfaces, and remains downward compatible with the older MVIP(TM), H-MVIP(TM) and SCbus(TM) computer telephony standards.''
The common architecture of the SWITI product family enables manufacturers of telecommunication and computer telephony switch and router products to speed time to market by implementing systems using one common software driver. System capacity and features can be modified by selecting SWITI ICs with different line capacities and connecting multiple ICs in parallel, by programming switching delay, and through support of multiple data rates in the same switching IC.
The H.100/H.110 Bus
Commonly known as the Computer Telephony, or CT- Bus, H.100/H.110 are interoperability specifications defined by the Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum which support implementation of interchangeable CTI modules based on PCI and CompactPCI form factor add-in boards. The H.100/H.110 specifications offer a complete, highly reliable and standardized backplane architecture for telecommunication systems and they are gaining wide acceptance in new Router, Remote Access, Voice over DSL (VoDSL), Digital Subscriber Line Access Module (DSLAM) and VoIP systems.
The SWITI ICs are designed to support the H.100/H.110 specifications, and to support the legacy bus interface designs which remain in wide use today. This provides system manufacturers with the flexibility to produce multiple platforms. The ICs are available in configurations to support 512, 1024 and 2048 data connections, with transfer speeds that can be independently set to 2, 4, 8, or 16Mb/s.
With support for multiple switching modes, the SWITI ICs can be used in a wide range of telecommunication systems. For example, programming for constant delay mode assures proper switching of data, while programming for minimum delay optimizes the delay for voice switching or any other real-time critical applications. A sub-channel switching mode allows the optimized use of available bandwidth, for applications such as mobile base stations in which compressed voice requires 2-bit switching. Also, SWITI supports unrestricted read and write access to all time slot data via the microprocessor interface.
The SWITI family consists of three universal MTSI switching ICs that support PCM interface and three HTSI ICs that integrate the H.100/H.110 interface, both utilizing 16 local I/O's. The high performance H.100/H.110 switching ICs enable the SWITI HTSI devices to operate with 32 bi-directional lines. The HTSI device can also be configured with an additional 16 additional PCM I/Os, to provide a total of 32 PCM data paths on and off the chip.
The specific IC product names, number of connections supported and packaging is summarized below.
HTSI PEF 20451- H.100/H.110 switch for 512 connections, P-BGA-217
package
HTSI-L PEF 20471 - H.100/H.110 switch for 1024 connections,
P-BGA-217 package
HTSI-XL PEF 24471 - H.100/H.110 switch for 2048 connections,
P-BGA-217 package
MTSI PEF 20450 - PCM switch for 512 connections, P-MQFP-100-2
package
MTSI-L PEF 20470 - PCM switch for 1024 connections, P-MQFP-100-2
package
MTSI-XL PEF 24470 - PCM switch for 2048 connections, P-MQFP-100-2
package
In addition to the ICs, the SWITI family includes the SMART 24471 demonstration board; a comprehensive range of software; easy-to-use configuration tools; E1/T1 and H.100 hardware interfaces; and connections for analog telephones.
The products are manufactured using a 0.35 micron and operate at 3.3V, with I/O tolerance to 5V. Sample shipments are available now, with mass production scheduled for the 4th quarter of 2000. Pricing in 10K quantities for the HTSI-XL is $41 and $11 to $15 for the MTSI and HTSI devices.
Further information is available at www.infineon.com/switi
About Infineon
Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, Germany, offers semiconductor solutions for applications in the wireless and wired communications markets, for the automotive and industrial sectors, for security systems and chip cards as well as memory products. With a global presence, Infineon operates in the US from San Jose, CA, and in the Asia-Pacific region from Singapore. In the fiscal year 1999 (ending September), the company achieved sales of Euro 4.24 billion (US $ 4.51 billion) with about 26,000 employees worldwide. The company is listed on the main market segment (Amtlicher Handel) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and at the New York Stock Exchange. Further information is available at www.infineon.com.
List of abbreviations:
cPCI compact Peripheral Component Interconnect HTSI H.100/H.110 Time Slot Interchanger MTSI Memory Time Slot Interchanger MVIP Multi-Vendor Integration Protocol: Standardized computer
telephony bus H-MVIP Multi-Vendor Integration Protocol: extended MVIP standard
(see above) SCbus Another standardized computer telephony bus PCM Pulse Code Modulation VoIP Voice over IP
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