Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: IDT | Subject: 75K72234 NSE
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 28 October 2004
Network search engine
gains development support
IDT is extending its partnership with Applied Micro Circuits Corp to deliver a complete development solution that reduces design time and lowers system costs for designers of comms equipment
IDT is extending its partnership with Applied Micro Circuits Corp to deliver a complete development solution that reduces design time and lowers system costs for designers of a broad range of communications equipment including multiservice edge routers, metro Ethernet, and broadband aggregation platforms.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 28 October 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Specifically, the solution comprises the AMCC nP3700 and nP3710 integrated network processor/traffic manager devices that seamlessly interface to the family of IDT network search engines with fully integrated Network Processor Forum (NPF) Look Aside (LA-1) interfaces.
As part of the offering, AMCC is including a daughtercard featuring the IDT 75K72234 NSE with dual LA-1 interfaces in the AMCC nPWorkbench 3700 hardware systems shipped to customers, as well as the IDT driver software and system level architecture model (SLAM) that is integrated with the AMCC nP3700 nPWorkshop software suite.
The dual LA-1 interfaces on the IDT NSE allow the sharing of databases between ingress and egress NPUs, thus enabling multiple database support for multi-field complex classification.
The IDT/AMCC joint solution is currently shipping to tier-1 customers.
This announcement extends a long-standing and successful relationship between IDT and AMCC.
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Previously, AMCC had integrated IDT NSEs and software development kits into its eXternal search coprocessor (XSC)-based nP3400, nP3450, nP3454 and nP7250 development environments.
'IDT offers a broad portfolio of NSE solutions optimised to enhance the search performance of solutions based on our NPUs, and extending the successful relationship we have built was a logical choice', said Amit Banerjee, Director of Strategic Marketing for AMCC's Communications Group.
'Partnering with reliable and proven suppliers like IDT demonstrates our commitment to providing comprehensive solutions for customers developing high-value solutions in a range of communications applications'.
'A host of recent partnership disclosures, including today's announcement with AMCC, have solidified IDT as the network search engine vendor of choice for companies looking to develop integrated solutions that accelerate packet processing', said Dave Cech, Director of Marketing for the IDT IP Coprocessor Division.
'By teaming with AMCC, we are providing customers complete, easy-to-use solutions with integrated hardware and software development kits and reference designs, thereby reducing their time to market, increasing performance, and lowering overall system cost'.
IDT offers a full suite of software and hardware development tools as well as responsive technical support and systems expertise.
In addition to its NSE daughtercard that is shipped as part of AMCC's nP3700 and nP3710 nPWorkbench development platforms, IDT offers a software development kit (SDK) for the AMCC nP3700 and nP3710 nPWorkshop development environment.
Included among the IDT SDK run-time support tools are a data plane macro (DPM) library conforming to the AMCC nPkernel and production-quality, control-plane initialisation, management and searching (IMS) software conforming to AMCC's Common Coprocessor API (CoCoA) 2.0 API specification, and a data-accurate SLAM for the AMCC development environment.
IDT was the first company to offer NSEs with a fully integrated LA-1 interface.
The family includes devices in 128K x 36 through 512K x 36bit configurations, performance up to 250 million searches per second and support for search widths up to 576bit.
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