Burst of announcements from Cavium on
its product selection and new products
The multi-core processor maker Cavium released sudden burst
of announcements where it has announced its customers who
have selected chips for different applications. Here below
are some of those announcements.
ZyXEL has selected the Cavium Networks OCTEON Plus and
OCTEON II processor technology for its Integrated Service
Gateway (ISG), and Next Generation Firewalls and UTM appliances
(USG).
Thecus Technology has begun shipping their latest generation
of NAS product family based on Cavium's ECONA System-On-Chips
(SOCs). The N2200Plus from Thecus is a 2-Bay NAS appliance
targeted at the Consumer market. Based on the ECONA CNS3420,
the N2200Plus provides advanced features like RAID 0/1,
hot-swap, NAS and DAS modes and integrated download manager.
GIGABYTE has developed cloud-expandable storage products
focused on the rapidly growing Consumer and SMB markets
based on Cavium's ECONA System-On-Chips (SOCs). GIGABYTE's
GR-EZ series are based on Cavium's ECONA platforms. The
GR-EZ series models are mainly addressed at SMB / SOHO markets,
but they can also be perfectly suitable for a home entertainment
environment thanks to their multimedia file management capabilities.
The GR-EZ series products come with both disk and disk-less
options to provide customers seamless scalability for internal
disk storage to a virtual / remote disk in the cloud. Combined
with GIGABYTE's cloud storage architecture, this enables
customers to successfully deploy a private cloud very easily.
NETGEAR has adopted the Cavium ECONA chip in their award-winning
firewall solutions.
Cavium Networks is demonstrating products based upon Cavium's
latest PureVu, ECONA, Celestial and OCTEON processor families
at Computex 2011 on May 31- June 4 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel
in Suite 2412.
Cavium Networks has also announced the collaboration with
Caswell, Inc. to deliver Multi-Motherboard Blade Servers
(MMBS) powered by a massive array of OCTEON processors for
energy efficient cloud computing applications.
New products announced by Cavium:
Cavium Networks has announced the PureVu CNW66xx family,
a new line of SoC video processors capable of addressing
the growing market demand for universal wireless display
receivers at the industry's lowest price points. Cavium's
new CNW66xx processors are designed for very low-cost video
streaming wireless display receivers targeting portable
consumer devices with built-in wireless display functionality.
CNW66xx Key Features:
Multi-format video processing engine capable of decoding
up to 1920x1080 p30/i60 resolution for a wide range of video
standards including MPEG2, H.264, MPEG4, AVS, VC-1, and
MJPEG
ARM CPU core
Programmable audio DSP with advanced DMA functionality to
enable real time decoding of popular audio standards including
MP3, AAC, and AC3
Display processor with multi-layer alpha compositor, 2D
graphics layer with color key and programmable screen locations,
and video layer with 16:9 to 4:3 conversion, letterboxing,
pre-scan, and up/down scaling
Video post-processor with 3D motion adaptive de-interlacer
and high quality poly-phase FIR video scaler
System Interfaces:
4 video DACs for YPbPr/RGB, S-video, and CVBS output
Integrated HDMI 1.3 transmitter, with DVI support
Integrated TV encoder supporting both Standard Definition
and High Definition video
I2S and S/PDIF digital audio output
10/100Mbps Ethernet (MII interface)
USB 2.0 high speed host controller (with embedded PHY)
Misc I/O including UART, SPI, I2C, and GPIOs
Availability and Pricing
CNW66xx family is sampling now.
Cavium has also announced a new universal adapter reference
design show-casing its ability to support WiVu, DLNA, and
software transmit solution interoperating with a range of
popular portable consumer devices including smart phones,
tablets and notebook PCs.
For information on Cavium visit cavium.com
