Product category: Programmable Logic Devices
News Release from: LSI Europe | Subject: StreamSlice
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 21 January 2003
Configurable chip slices
into comms market
StreamSlice is the first offering in the LSI Logic RapidChip configurable product family
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Featuring 20Gbit/s of full-duplex throughput, StreamSlice targets high-end switches, routers and other communications system applications. "With the RapidChip StreamSlice platform, communications system designers can take advantage of the density, performance, and customisation benefits of cell-based ASICs combined with the low-development costs and fast time-to-market advantages of FPGAs", said Rick Marz, Executive Vice President, LSI Logic Communications and ASIC Technology.
"The RapidChip approach meets the needs of the growing underserved mid-volume market".
A "slice" is a premanufactured chip in which all silicon layers have been built, leaving the top five metal layers to be completed with the customer's unique IP.
RapidChip devices such as StreamSlice are easily customisable by building on the features already present in the slice, then adding blocks of intellectual property from the LSI Logic CoreWare library along with the customer's unique logic.
System designers can use StreamSlice to eliminate interface integration challenges and create custom high-density chips faster, more predictably and at a lower cost.
Multiple sets of embedded high-speed serdes enable the use of proven, industry-compliant interfaces including, SPI4.2, XAUI, Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand.
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StreamSlice also offers 3.3Mbit of embedded memory and 3 million usable gates of customer-configurable logic.
"The proven, preplaced high-speed interfaces used in StreamSlice can eliminate from six to nine months of design effort and risk from the development schedule", said Tom Sandoval, Vice President of Communications Marketing, LSI Logic's Communications and ASIC Division.
"StreamSlice delivers on the LSI Logic RapidChip promise to reduce time-to-market, development cost and risk".
Offering designers the flexibility of using multiple proven standard interfaces, StreamSlice provides a platform for 10Gbit/s of datapath processing between 16-channel interfaces such as SPI4.2 and four-channel high-speed interfaces, such as XAUI.
Individually, these high-speed channels can support the Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and InfiniBand standards, or a proprietary interface in the 1.0625-3.2Gbit/s range.
"Customisable standard cell functionality combined with fast, predictable time-to-market is now a reality", said Jerry Worchel, Senior Analyst with market research firm In-Stat/MDR.
"This first slice in the LSI Logic RapidChip family will serve the emerging middle segment of the communications market that need to quickly create custom designs at a low cost and in the shortest possible time".
The first of many RapidChip product slices to be introduced, StreamSlice products are in design today and will be manufactured in Q1 2003 using LSI Logic's G12 (0.18-micron) process technologies at its world-class Gresham, Oregon, manufacturing campus.
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