Tundra Tsi148(TM) PCI/X-to-VMEbus Bridge Now Available with Industrial
Temperature Rating
OTTAWA, July 12 /CNW Telbec/ - Tundra Semiconductor Corporation
(TSX: TUN), the leader in System Interconnect, today announced the immediate
availability of the Tundra Tsi148 bridge with a full industrial temperature
rating. The Tsi148 is the industry's leading PCI/X-to-VMEbus bridge and the
successful next-generation offering to the Tundra Universe(TM) II, the leading
VMEbus bridge for embedded systems customers. The availability of an
industrial temperature-rated Tsi148 allows Tundra's customers with challenging
thermal environments in military and communications applications to perform
system qualification at higher ambient temperatures up to +85 degrees C.
Tundra continues to demonstrate its investment in its VMEbus bridge
product line, confirming both its commitment to customers and partners. The
addition of this Tsi148 variant strengthens Tundra's market leadership
position as the leading supplier of VME System Interconnect. In addition to
the Tsi148, the Tundra VME System Interconnect portfolio also includes the
SCV64(TM) bus bridge and the Universe II bus bridge. All are available in
commercial and industrial temperature ratings.
"Tundra is the world leader in VME interconnect technology with more than
ten years experience in providing VME solutions and technical support to the
embedded systems industry," said Rick O'Connor, Chief Technology Officer and
Vice President of Product Management at Tundra. "The availability of an
industrial temperature-rated Tsi148 is another example of our continued and
strong commitment to customers to ensure our products deliver the performance
and functionality they require."
In addition to providing both commercial and industrial temperature-rated
products for its VMEbus bridge product line, Tundra announced in August 2004
that it would be providing lead-free (Pb-free) packaging options for the
majority of its System Interconnect product portfolio. The Tundra product
options are compliant with European Union RoHS (Restriction on Use of
Hazardous Substances) legislation. This legislation, which is to come into
effect in July 2006, specifies the use of substitute materials for several
hazardous substances, including lead, that are currently in use. The
Universe II is available now in a lead-free package and Tundra expects samples
of its lead-free Tsi148 and SCV64 to be available in early 2006. For more
information on Tundra's Pb-free/ RoHS compliant products, please visit
http://www.tundra.com/Products/LeadFree.cfm
AVAILABILITY AND PRICING
The Tundra Tsi148 with an industrial temperature rating (Tsi148-133IL) is
available now through Tundra's worldwide sales network. Documentation,
including ordering information, user manuals and software drivers, is
available at www.tundra.com . For volumes in excess of 1000 parts per year,
the Tsi148-133IL is priced at $300 USD.
Tsi148 PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
The Tsi148 maximizes PCI/X transactions for VME applications. The Tsi148
provides an increase in overall processing capability on legacy backplanes,
while transparently enabling the high-performance distributed processing that
new applications demand. The device has a number of features that optimize bus
utilization and overall board performance. Features include:
- Industry's best sustained transfer rate of 305 MB/s in 2eSST - higher
system bandwidth
- Multithreading - capable of a number of simultaneous transactions
while optimizing bus utilization
- Full featured master, slave and system controller - can be used in any
VME application
- PCI-X local bus supports two loads at 133 MHz - reducing component
count
- Small device footprint - saves board space
- Proven VME backwards compatibility - preserves legacy investment
The Tsi148 bridges PCI or PCI-X on the local bus to the VMEbus, while
eliminating performance bottlenecks by operating as a peer with other devices
on the local bus. This can reduce the total number of bridges that VMEbus
product vendors and end-users require for bandwidth management on the host
card. On the system interface, the Tsi148 operates in master or slave mode for
traditional VME, 2eVME and 2eSST transactions. These protocols are industry
standards developed by the VMEbus International Trade Association (VITA) of
which Tundra is a long-standing member.
ABOUT TUNDRA
Tundra Semiconductor Corporation delivers standards-based System
Interconnect for use by the world's leading vendors of wireless
infrastructure, networking, storage and pervasive computing systems. Tundra
System Interconnect allows customers to link critical system components while
compressing development cycles and maximizing performance. For more
information, please visit www.tundra.com .
TUNDRA is a registered trademark of Tundra Semiconductor Corporation
(Canada, U.S. and U.K.). TUNDRA, the Tundra logo, SCV64, Universe, and Tsi148
are trademarks of Tundra Semiconductor Corporation. Other registered and
unregistered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
(C) Copyright 2005 Tundra Semiconductor Corporation. All rights
reserved. Information subject to change without notice.
