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To: richard surckla who wrote (31128)	9/29/1999 1:35:00 AM
From: richard surckla	Respond to of 93625

Thread. I don't know if this article ever appeared here: hongkong1.cnet.com

To: richard surckla who wrote (31128)	9/29/1999 1:38:00 AM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

richard, The first line is a pretty good start: The Direct Rambus? ASIC Cell (Direct RAC) is a library macrocell used in ASIC designs to interface the core logic of a CMOS ASIC device to a high-speed Direct Rambus Channel. When someone's designing an ASIC (a custom chip) the design for the interface to RDRAM is a "building block" that can be dropped right into the design and, voila, your ASIC can talk to RDRAM memory. Or so I've been told by my buddy that designs ASICs. He might have simplified it a little for the ASIC-impaired. <G> I think that most of the ASIC companies (TI, etc.) have worked with Rambus to develop the RACs. Dave

To: richard surckla who wrote (31128)	9/29/1999 2:52:00 AM
From: grok	Respond to of 93625

RE: <Thread. Anyone ever hear of Direct RAC from Rambus? Maybe one of the Techies can explain,> Each chip talking to a Rambus channel has to have a special interface. To simply things let's say there are only Rdrams and Chip Set. The Chip Set can be called an ASIC. A RAC is a Rambus ASIC Controller and is the part of Camino, for example, that speaks Rambus. During the finger pointing on Friday at one point Rambus was saying that the Rdrams are OK and the problem was with Camino. I made a post that pointed out that Rambus provides the RAC to Intel so if Camino is bad it would likely mean that the Rambus-provided RAC is bad. Oh well, it seems that the finger pointing has died out for the time being anyway.