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To: Jim Oravetz who wrote (2566)	12/12/2000 8:08:15 AM
From: Bosco	Respond to of 2882

Hi all - this is a smart way to create demands for ADI/INTC version of DSP biz.yahoo.com by acquiring some strategic developers <G> best, Bosco

To: Jim Oravetz who wrote (2566)	12/19/2000 3:55:33 PM
From: Scrapps	Respond to of 2882

Octal ADSL chip set weighs in at 1.3 W per port By Patrick Mannion EE Times (12/19/00, 1:58 p.m. EST) MANHASSET, N.Y. — Stepping up to the DSL central-office challenge of maximum ports at minimum power and footprint, Tioga Technologies has announced its PeakADSL octal central-office ADSL chip set with a per-port footprint and power consumption of 1.4 inches2 and 1.3 watts. Tioga said the level of density and low power the solution achieves enables multiple-tenant DSL access multiplexers, digital loop carriers and multitenant-unit vendors to deliver equipment to service providers that meets the demand for large-scale and fast-growth DSL deployment. In turn, Tioga said, the service providers can address the voracious demand for higher bandwidth from millions of Internet users worldwide. While the company's optimism in terms of DSL demand might seem misplaced — considering the recent competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) turmoil in DSL — Tom Sennhauser, president and chief executive officer of Tioga (San Jose, Calif.), said the recent turmoil simply symbolizes the lack of equilibrium in the food chain from chip makers through CLECs and incumbent LECs to the customer. "There were too many CLECs and a shakeout was inevitable," he said. "Our expectations at the chip level are that growth will continue in 2001, though at levels more realistic than what had been overly hyped in 2000." To kick off 2001, Tioga will sample its PeakADSL chip set in January, and it expects to reach price points under $20 late in the year. The set comprises the TA1080 octal ADSL transceiver and the TA2040 quad analog front end (AFE). Combined with line-driving circuitry, it provides a complete solution for eight or more full-rate ADSL lines. The TA1080 transceiver supports discrete multitone (DMT) line code to T1.413 Issue 2, ETSI TS 101 388, ITU G.992.1 (including Annexes A, B and C) and ITU G.992.2. It has eight independent transceivers optimized for CO operation with bit rates of a minimum of 3 Mbits/second upstream and 10 Mbits/s downstream. Each transceiver includes a Teak DSP core from the DSP Group Inc., a microcoded DMT engine, framer and data interfaces, interleave memory and object code for a complete management/control API. Sennhauser said, "There is no need for external memory, and we have found that features such as the ability to run the Utopia II interface and the serial interface in dual latency mode to be particularly appealing to customers." Sennhauser also pointed to the fact that no host intervention is required on startup, allowing users to implement a hostless line card using the serial interface. The TA1080 supports category-II ASDL functionality, including Trellis coding and echo cancellation, and comes with a complete software control stack. The TA2040 quad-AFE is actually based on a Fujitsu part, modified to interface seamlessly with the TA1080. It has four independent analog transmit and receive channels supporting G.dmt and G.lite. Each channel contains a 15-bit D/A converter with associated anti-imaging filters, a 15-bit A/D converter with anti-aliasing filter and a programmable gain-summing amplifier. All analog signal paths are differential. A clock multiplier and bandgap references are incorporated on-chip, as are a parallel data interface, a serial interface and integrated transmit interpolation filters. The on-board automatic gain control has a range of 0 to 48 decibels for each receive channel. Though much has gone into reducing the power consumption of the transceiver and the AFE, the effort pales next to the power required by the line drivers, which in this case are from Analog Devices or Elantec. Sennhauser estimates the power consumed by those drivers at roughly 60 percent of the total per port. "Thankfully," he said, "there are new generations of drivers about to hit the market that should consume half the power required by current devices." The TA1080 transceiver uses a 1.8-V, 0.18-micron CMOS process and comes in a 272-pin BGA package, while the TA2040 uses a 3.3-V, 0.35-micron CMOS process and comes in a 216-pin enhanced FBGA. Both have an operating temperature range of --40 to +85 degrees C. eetimes.com

To: Jim Oravetz who wrote (2566)	12/29/2000 2:23:08 AM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2882

By TONY SMITH, AP Business Writer SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Technology industry officials were jubilant Thursday, a day after Congress passed a law extending tax breaks for the sector for nine years in all regions of the country. In a late-night vote Wednesday, lawmakers passed an information technology law that has languished in Congress for almost a year. To take effect, it must now be approved by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso within 15 working days. The law foresees tax breaks and incentives for producers of high-technology equipment such as computers, video monitors and cell phones across Brazil until 2009. The law's passage represented a victory for Brazil's rich, southern states, and particularly Sao Paulo, over politicians from the Amazon who have been fighting to defend decades-old privileges granted to a duty-free manufacturing zone in Manaus, their region's capital. The new law gives a few extra advantages to the duty-free zone until 2013 but probably not enough to convince investors to turn their back on the south, home to Brazil's main markets and export facilities. ``We all welcome this enthusiastically,'' Hugo Valerio, director for government relations at Compaq Brazil, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. Like many tech manufacturers, Compaq operates out of Sao Paulo state. ``The impasse generated insecurity, nobody in the sector really knew what was going to happen, whether we would continue our investments in Brazil or not,'' he said. ``We were apprehensive, now we're more reassured.'' Sao Paulo state's Secretary for Science, Technology and Economic Development Jose Anibal told business daily Valor that the law ``establishes a new, fair policy for the sector.'' The impasse over the law has kept on hold a series of major investments in the technology sector worth as much as $7.5 billion, according to the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Development. Ministry sources claim at least five major foreign manufacturers were holding off setting up in Brazil until legislation was cleared up. Last week, a vice president of chip manufacturer Intel visited Minister Alcides Tapias. In January, Tapias is to receive a high-level delegation from cell phone chip maker Analog Devices. One of the first projects expected to go ahead now is a much-discussed Dell computer factory worth some $125 million and reportedly destined for Rio Grande do Sul state, bordering Argentina and Uruguay. Pauderney Avelino, deputy for Amazonas state, said his region would challenge Wednesday's vote in the Supreme Court. Early this month, the court granted an injunction to suspend tax breaks granted as a stopgap measure to producers of high-tech goods outside the Manaus area. The tech sector retaliated by threatening to raise prices as much as 20 percent. Brazil's $560 billion economy is by far Latin America's largest and accounts for about half of South America's output. The electronic goods sector grew 21 percent this year.