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Altera Announces Bridgeable POS-PHY Solutions from 155Mbps to 10Gbps
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 2001--Altera
Corporation (Nasdaq:ALTR) today announced the availability of the
POS-PHY Level 4 MegaCore® logic function with Altera's Atlantic(TM)
on-chip interface. Optimized for Altera's APEX(TM) II devices, the
POS-PHY Level 4 interface is a 10 Gbps chip-to-chip interface for
next-generation Packet-over-SONET (POS) Internet traffic, Ethernet, as
well as ATM applications.
``We are excited about Altera's latest announcement which adds
POS-PHY Level 4 to their existing Level 2 and Level 3 cores,'' said
Steve Perna, vice president and general manager of PMC-Sierra's
Optical Networking Division. ``This will expedite designers'
time-to-market with link layer solutions that are compatible with our
XENON(TM) family of OC-192 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet POS-PHY Level 4
devices.''
``Our efforts with PMC-Sierra are clearly focused on providing our
mutual customers with communications solutions that enable fast
time-to-market,'' said Craig Lytle, vice president of the intellectual
property business unit at Altera. ``The results of our partnership
provide communications designers with powerful solutions for their
system-level design challenges.''
About the Atlantic Interface
Altera's Atlantic interface is a scalable, high-speed on-chip
interface for packet and cell transfer. Optimized for programmable
logic devices, the Atlantic interface allows designers to quickly and
easily build bridges between incompatible devices, as well as
facilitate the user's integration of intellectual property (IP) with a
simple, clearly defined, and supported interface.
The Atlantic interface is designed as a datapath bus for packet
transfer between communications IP. Defined with minimal overhead, the
Atlantic interface utilizes approximately 10 control signals in
addition to a variable width data bus, and an optional address bus.
The control signals include parity, start-of-packet, end-of-packet,
error, empty, enable or data valid or data available signals. The
Atlantic interface utilizes a simple four-way handshake as flow
control and is scalable all the way up to 40Gb/s and beyond.
The Atlantic functional specification is an open standard
available on the Altera web site and is supported by the Altera
Megafunction Partners Program (AMPP(SM)).
http://www.altera.com/literature/fs/fs_atlantic.pdf.
About Altera
Altera Corporation, The Programmable Solutions Company®, was
founded in 1983 and is a leading supplier of programmable logic
devices (PLDs). Altera's CMOS-based PLDs are user-programmable
semiconductor chips that enhance flexibility and reduce time-to-market
for companies in the communications, computer peripheral, and
industrial markets. By using high performance devices, software
development tools, and sophisticated intellectual property cores,
system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions can be created with
embedded processors, memory, and other complex logic together on a
single PLD. Altera common stock is traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market
under the symbol ALTR. More information on Altera is available on the
Internet at http://www.altera.com.
Altera, The Programmable Solutions Company, the stylized Altera
logo, specific device designations and all other words that are
identified as trademarks and/or service marks are, unless noted
otherwise, the trademarks and service marks of Altera Corporation in
the U.S. and other countries. All other product or service names are
the property of their respective holders.
Contact:
Altera Corporation
Bruce Fienberg, 408/544-6866
bfienber@altera.com
or
PR21
Susannah Stanford, 415/369-8105
susannah.stanford@pr21.com
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