RapidIO switch IC from IDT supports eight
x4 ports at up to 6.25 Gbaud per lane
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. has added new member
to its RapidIO Gen2 switch family. IDT said it has added
intermediately-sized CPS-1432 in response to the strong
demand for RapidIO Gen2 switches fueled by the prolific
expansion of 4G wireless infrastructure and the growing
industry adoption of RapidIO for defense, aerospace, server,
medical imaging, and video applications.
The architecture of CPS 1432 is designed for the above
mentioned high-growth market segments an upgrade path for
IDT's industry benchmark Gen1 RapidIO solutions that is
smaller in form factor and consumes 40% less power per 10
Gigabit of data.
The device supports eight x4 ports at up to 6.25 Gbaud
per lane, providing twice the performance per port when
compared to IDT's high performance Serial RapidIO (S-RIO)
1.3 switches. The CPS 1432 also offers more than twice the
bandwidth per port compared to 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches
and has an industry-leading latency of 100ns. As a result,
it was recently selected by Curtiss-Wright Controls for
use in their latest DSP platform for the rugged deployed
embedded military market, says IDT.
"We chose the IDT CPS 1432 for our CHAMP-AV8 6U VPX
DSP board to aggregate traffic between dual quad core Intel
Core i7 processors onto a RapidIO backplane,""
said Lynne Bamford, vice president and general manager for
Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. "The selection
of RapidIO over Ethernet was clear. The size, power, and
latency advantages of the IDT CPS 1432 RapidIO switch combined
with IDT's PCI Express Gen2 to S-RIO Gen2 bridging technology
enables us to deliver the market's highest performance open
standard 6U VPX form factor signal processing solution."
"RapidIO is an ideal interconnect solution for multi-processing
applications, and IDT's offerings continue to enable and
lead this market," said Fred Zust, vice president of
the Communications Division at IDT. "The CPS 1432 provides
the package size and lane count that our customers have
been asking for, and demonstrates our continued investment
in this technology. Going forward, we expect RapidIO to
continue to gain market share over Ethernet in many embedded
markets."
Package: 25x25 mm FCBGA
Availability: Now in samples
Price: priced at $79 in volume
For more details visit: www.idt.com/go/S-RIO
The RapidIO Interconnect Architecture, designed to be compatible
with the most popular integrated communications processors,
host processors, and networking digital signal processors,
is a high-performance, packet-switched, interconnect technology.
It addresses the high-performance embedded industry's need
for reliability, increased bandwidth, and faster bus speeds
in an intra-system interconnect. The RapidIO interconnect
allows chip-to-chip and board-to-board communications at
performance levels scaling to ten Gigabits per second and
beyond. To know more on RapidIO visit www.rapidio.org
