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Tundra Announces Expansion of its Industry - Leading Portfolio of VME Bridges
Tundra Announces Expansion of its Industry - Leading Portfolio of VME Bridges.

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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n\nTundra Tsi148(TM) PCI/X-to-VMEbus Bridge Now Available with Industrial \nTemperature Rating\n\nOTTAWA, July 12 /CNW Telbec/ - Tundra Semiconductor Corporation\n(TSX: TUN), the leader in System Interconnect, today announced the immediate\navailability of the Tundra Tsi148 bridge with a full industrial temperature\nrating. The Tsi148 is the industry's leading PCI/X-to-VMEbus bridge and the\nsuccessful next-generation offering to the Tundra Universe(TM) II, the leading\nVMEbus bridge for embedded systems customers. The availability of an\nindustrial temperature-rated Tsi148 allows Tundra's customers with challenging\nthermal environments in military and communications applications to perform\nsystem qualification at higher ambient temperatures up to +85 degrees C.\nTundra continues to demonstrate its investment in its VMEbus bridge\nproduct line, confirming both its commitment to customers and partners. The\naddition of this Tsi148 variant strengthens Tundra's market leadership\nposition as the leading supplier of VME System Interconnect. In addition to\nthe Tsi148, the Tundra VME System Interconnect portfolio also includes the\nSCV64(TM) bus bridge and the Universe II bus bridge. All are available in\ncommercial and industrial temperature ratings.\n\"Tundra is the world leader in VME interconnect technology with more than\nten years experience in providing VME solutions and technical support to the\nembedded systems industry,\" said Rick O'Connor, Chief Technology Officer and\nVice President of Product Management at Tundra. \"The availability of an\nindustrial temperature-rated Tsi148 is another example of our continued and\nstrong commitment to customers to ensure our products deliver the performance\nand functionality they require.\"\nIn addition to providing both commercial and industrial temperature-rated\nproducts for its VMEbus bridge product line, Tundra announced in August 2004\nthat it would be providing lead-free (Pb-free) packaging options for the\nmajority of its System Interconnect product portfolio. The Tundra product\noptions are compliant with European Union RoHS (Restriction on Use of\nHazardous Substances) legislation. This legislation, which is to come into\neffect in July 2006, specifies the use of substitute materials for several\nhazardous substances, including lead, that are currently in use. The\n...