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Tundra Semiconductor and Atmel Announce Agreement to Provide System Interconnect Products for Extended Reliability Markets
Tundra Semiconductor and Atmel Announce Agreement to Provide System Interconnect Products for Extended Reliability Markets.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n\nOTTAWA, ON and SAN JOSE, CA, July 26 /CNW Telbec/ - Tundra Semiconductor\nCorporation (TSX: TUN), the leader in System Interconnect and Atmel(R)\nCorporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a global leader in the development and fabrication\nof advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced an agreement enabling\nAtmel to deliver leading-edge system interconnect products to the extended-\nreliability markets. In this new agreement, Atmel has been licensed to deliver\na selection of Tundra's portfolio of high-performance interconnect devices\nwith enhanced capabilities for applications requiring extended-temperature and\nextended-reliability specifications. As a result of this announcement, Tundra\nand Atmel-Grenoble will offer comprehensive processing systems solutions in\nthe high-performance telecommunications, embedded computing, industrial,\nmilitary and space markets.\nAtmel will be able to offer host bridges for PowerPC(R) and RapidIO(R)\ninterconnect products as either commercial devices upscreened to meet extended-\nreliability demands, such as high temperature range, burn-in or other specific\nqualifications, or as high reliability devices assembled and tested by Atmel\nto military screening levels such as MIL-PRF 38535.\n\"We are pleased to partner with Atmel Grenoble. The partnership is\nimportant to our commitment to customers - enabling them to design with\nstandards-based System Interconnect products for both PowerPC and RapidIO\narchitectures and now in both industrial and military temperature ranges,\"\nsaid Daniel Hoste, vice president of Products at Tundra Semiconductor. \"Atmel\nGrenoble is recognized as the specialist in supplying extended reliability\nmicroprocessors and we are confident our products will be more widely\navailable to customers who are developing systems suitable for harsh\nenvironments.\"\nJoining the PC106 and PC107, will be the PC109, the extended-reliability\nversion of the Tundra Tsi109(TM) Host Bridge for PowerPC. The PC109 is an\nideal companion chip for the PC74xx high-reliability microprocessors supported\nby Atmel. It will be available from Atmel during fourth quarter 2006. In\naddition to the host bridges, Atmel intends to offer extended-reliability\nversions of Tundra's portfolio of serial RapidIO switches.\n\"With more than twenty years of successful support of Freescale\nSemiconduc...