LSI Logic Delivers World's First Modular High-Speed Backplane
Transceiver Core For CMOS ASICs - 08:18 a.m. Jun 01, 1998 Eastern
MILPITAS, Calif., June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- LSI Logic Corporation,
(NYSE: LSI) the world's leading developer of system-on-a-chip technology,
today announces the immediate availability of the first modular
high-speed backplane transceiver created in CMOS. The HyperPHY(TM) core
is the first to allow 32 independent high-speed channel interfaces, with
custom logic, in a single CMOS ASIC. A HyperPHY based ASIC consumes as
little as one-fifth the power of several GaAs, BiCMOS or bipolar chips
performing the same function. The core's modular function promotes
flexibility by allowing multiple data transfer channels operating at
622- to 830-Mb/s, or any sub-multiple speed. LSI Logic's improvements
in backplane transceiver technology allows greater cost savings,
real-estate, and power savings for next-generation broadband
telecommunications and networking systems.
"The explosive growth of the Internet and the increasing deregulation
of the telecommunications industry have created tremendous growth
opportunities amongst the hotly competitive telephone operating
companies and Internet Service Providers," said Giuseppe Staffaroni,
vice president and general manager of LSI Logic's Communications
Products Division. "Telecom and networking system customers understand
the market need to develop faster, smaller and more flexible systems."
"The HyperPHY transceiver core is the only modular CMOS solution that
integrates multi-gigabit data transfer rates on a single chip,"
Staffaroni added. "This solution will enable systems manufacturers to
stay ahead of their competition by allowing them to design smaller,
highly integrated, multi-gigabit per second systems that are
cost-effective, run cooler, and are easier to manage."
Five independent building blocks together form the HyperPHY core:
* Frequency Synthesizer which generates clocks in the frequency
ranges of
622- to 830-MHz, 311- to 415-MHz, and 155- to 208-MHz
* Clock Recovery Receiver which recovers data at up to 830-Mb/s
* Receive Deserializer
* Transmit Serializer
* Bias Current Generator
In addition, the core's modular architecture provide an ideal solution
for solving the backplane bandwidth bottleneck in high throughput ATM
or LAN switches, Add-Drop Mux or cross-connect systems.
The HyperPHY core is compliant with the CoreWare(R) design program and
can be used with other electronic building blocks such as LSI Logic's
high speed Hyper-LVDS(TM) and Hyper-PCML 5-Volt compatible I/O buffers,
to form complete single-chip, high speed backplane solutions.
LSI Logic will demonstrate HyperPHY core at Supercomm '98, Atlanta,
June 7-11.
LSI Logic's Communications Products Division provides leading silicon
solutions for customers in the networking, public networks, and wireless
communications market places. In 1997, the Communications Products
Division made up 32% of the company's revenue.
LSI Logic, The System on a Chip Company(R), is a leading supplier of
customer high-performance semiconductors, with operations world-wide.
The company enables customers to build complete systems on a single chip
with its CoreWare(R) design program, which increases performance, lowers
system costs and accelerates time to market. LSI Logic develops
application-optimized products in partnership with trend setting
customers, and operates leading-edge manufacturing facilities to produce
submicron geometry chips. The company maintains a high level of quality
as demonstrated by its ISO 9000 certifications. LSI Logic Corporation
is headquartered at 1551 McCarthy Boulevard, Milpitas, California 95035,
lsilogic.com . SOURCE LSI Logic Corporation
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