OTTAWA, ON and SAN JOSE, CA, July 26 /CNW Telbec/ - Tundra Semiconductor
Corporation (TSX: TUN), the leader in System Interconnect and Atmel(R)
Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a global leader in the development and fabrication
of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced an agreement enabling
Atmel to deliver leading-edge system interconnect products to the extended-
reliability markets. In this new agreement, Atmel has been licensed to deliver
a selection of Tundra's portfolio of high-performance interconnect devices
with enhanced capabilities for applications requiring extended-temperature and
extended-reliability specifications. As a result of this announcement, Tundra
and Atmel-Grenoble will offer comprehensive processing systems solutions in
the high-performance telecommunications, embedded computing, industrial,
military and space markets.
Atmel will be able to offer host bridges for PowerPC(R) and RapidIO(R)
interconnect products as either commercial devices upscreened to meet extended-
reliability demands, such as high temperature range, burn-in or other specific
qualifications, or as high reliability devices assembled and tested by Atmel
to military screening levels such as MIL-PRF 38535.
"We are pleased to partner with Atmel Grenoble. The partnership is
important to our commitment to customers - enabling them to design with
standards-based System Interconnect products for both PowerPC and RapidIO
architectures and now in both industrial and military temperature ranges,"
said Daniel Hoste, vice president of Products at Tundra Semiconductor. "Atmel
Grenoble is recognized as the specialist in supplying extended reliability
microprocessors and we are confident our products will be more widely
available to customers who are developing systems suitable for harsh
environments."
Joining the PC106 and PC107, will be the PC109, the extended-reliability
version of the Tundra Tsi109(TM) Host Bridge for PowerPC. The PC109 is an
ideal companion chip for the PC74xx high-reliability microprocessors supported
by Atmel. It will be available from Atmel during fourth quarter 2006. In
addition to the host bridges, Atmel intends to offer extended-reliability
versions of Tundra's portfolio of serial RapidIO switches.
"With more than twenty years of successful support of Freescale
Semiconductor's PowerPC and 68K microprocessors for extended reliability
markets, we are delighted by the opportunity to officially team with Tundra.
Tundra's System Interconnect products ideally complement our microprocessor
portfolio and will broaden the range of solutions available for our
customers," said Thierry Gouvernel, director of BMS product line at Atmel
Grenoble. "Customers will continue to benefit from a high level of services
and warranty thanks to Atmel Grenoble's world-class assembly and test
facilities as well as technical support and long term product availability."
About Tundra Semiconductor Corporation
Tundra Semiconductor Corporation (TSX:TUN) is the global leader in System
Interconnect providing world-class customer and technical support, leading-
edge semiconductor solutions and design services to the world's foremost
communications, networking, storage system, and information technology
vendors. Consistently delivering on system level performance promises that
reduce time to market, Tundra System Interconnect products ensure market
advantage in wireless infrastructure, storage networking, network access,
military, industrial automation, and information technology applications.
Silicon Logic Engineering, Inc. ("SLE"), Tundra's semiconductor design
services division, offers industry-leading ASIC design services, semiconductor
intellectual property and product development consulting. For more
information, please visit www.tundra.com
About Atmel
Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of
microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio
frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry's broadest
intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is able to provide the
electronics industry with complete system solutions. Focused on consumer,
industrial, security, communications, computing and automotive markets, Atmel
ICs can be found Everywhere You Are(R). For further information on Atmel's Hi-
Rel microprocessors, go to http://www.atmel.com/products/HighRel
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(Canada, U.S. and U.K.). TUNDRA and the Tundra logo are registered marks of
Tundra Semiconductor Corporation (Canada - registration in the United States,
European Union, and People's Republic of China). Design.Connect.Go is a
trademark of Tundra Semiconductor Corporation. The PowerPC name, Power
Architecture name, and the PowerPC logotype are trademarks of International
Business Machines Corporation, used under license therefrom. RapidIO is a
trademark of the RapidIO Trade Association, Inc. Other registered and
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