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News Release from: Tensilica | Subject: UpZide reference design
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 11 January 2008
Reference deal facilitates high-speed
internet
UpZide's solution builds on the existing and continued roll out of FTTN (fibre-to-the-network) VDSL2 deployment by significantly increasing both data rates and reach over the existing copper network.
UpZide Labs and Tensilica have reached an agreement relationship under which UpZide will take its reference Vectorised VDSL2 (second-generation very high-speed digital subscriber line) design to market in a chipset using over 50 Xtensa LX2 configurable processors Vectorised VDSL2 technology is seen as key to delivering VoIP (voice over internet protocol), VoD (video on demand) and HDTV (high-definition television) simultaneously over standard telephone lines
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 Mar 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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UpZide is to develop a reference design using multiple Xtensa LX processors from Tensilica to implement the VDSL2 standard.
"Our scalable architecture is built on multiple Xtensa processors", said UpZide's CEO, Dr Mikael Isaksson.
"The programmable nature of this platform allows for efficient future upgrades, compliance to standard enlargements, customisations and customer niche optimisations for both control plane (firmware) and data plane (transceiver)".
"It also allows us to use an advanced system simulation environment to ensure end-to-end system validation quality".
UpZide's solution builds on the existing and continued roll out of FTTN (fibre-to-the-network) VDSL2 deployment by significantly increasing both data rates and reach over the existing copper network and providing operators with an economically and timely alternative to FTTH (fibre-to-the-home).
Vectoring overcomes the performance limitations of VDSL2 with a capital expenditure that is far less less than required for FTTH in brown-field deployments, making it the solution of choice for operators as they increase their offering of value-added services.
"UpZide's team has strong expertise gained from designing several VDSL platforms in various semiconductor technologies, including FPGAs, ASICs and DSPs, since 1995", according to Steve Roddy, Tensilica's Vice President of Marketing.
"As we've worked together over the past two years, UpZide has found that our Xtensa configurable processors are suitable for this project because they can be optimised precisely for this application".
"This makes them much faster and energy efficient than standard control processors, enabling UpZide to design a processor-based solution with the power-area efficiency previously only attainable with hard-coded RTL design methodologies".
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