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News Release from: Monterey Design Systems | Subject: Monterey toolsuite
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 7 February 2003
Switch fabric design comes in on time
Fabless semiconductor company TeraChip has successfully completed - on budget and on schedule - its first switch fabric design using the Monterey toolsuite
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TeraChip is currently sampling its new TCF16X10 single-chip 160G switch fabric, with volume production scheduled for Q2/2003. "By implementing an embedded SRAM with effective throughput of 320Gbit/s, based on high-speed ultra-wide buses, we were able to offer a breakthrough in system simplicity, cost and power reduction", said Gideon Paul, Vice President of Research and Development at TeraChip.
"The early planning and prototyping capabilities of the Monterey tool set were instrumental in our ability to tape out this design very quickly, as is evidenced by the availability of samples today less than nine months after adopting the Monterey solution".
The TCF16X10 switch fabric IC employs a proprietary shared-memory architecture and delivers an aggregate 160Gbit/s switching capacity.
It was implemented with TSMC's 0.13um process and dissipates just 15W.
"TeraChip is a good example of what can be achieved with a COT design flow", said Dave Reed, Vice President of Marketing at Monterey.
"This design is higher performance, less costly to produce, and is available sooner than it would have been if implemented as an ASIC".
(This was Electronicstalk's Top Story on 7 February 2003)
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