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Cypress Releases 18-Mbit Network Search Engine Models With Advanced Support for Intel IXP2400/2800/2850 Network Processors
Intel(R) Communication Alliance Member Promotes Standards-Based,
Modular, Packet-Processing Solution For Networking Equipment
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Dec. 16, 2003—
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY) today announced the
availability of cycle-accurate C models of its Ayama(TM) 20000 LA-1
attach Network Search Engines (NSEs). In addition to being recognized
as the industry's highest-performance NSE at 266-million searches per
second (MSPS), the Ayama 20000 NSE also provides advanced support for
the Intel(R) IXP2400/2800/2850 network processors units (NPUs). The
Ayama 20000 NSE software models are interoperable with Intel NPUs as
well as with the Intel software development kit (SDK) version 3.1.
Cypress's Ayama 20000 NSE uses the LA-1 interface to seamlessly
connect to multiple network NPUs. The Ayama 20000 NSE's cycle-accurate
C-model plugs seamlessly into the foreign-object model (FOM) interface
of Intel's NPU transactor models. This allows software engineers to
perform early prototyping and software development, even before the
availability of hardware.
"Cypress is actively involved in defining and promoting
standards-based packet-processing solutions," said Geoff Charubin,
managing director of Marketing and Applications for Cypress's Data
Communications Division. "Our comprehensive search solutions, which
include the highest-performance NSEs on the market, extensive software
support and easy-to-use development kits for use across multiple NPUs,
also provide a significant time-to-market advantage to our customers."
The software interoperability between the Ayama 20000 NSE and
Intel IXP2xxx NPUs is demonstrated using a 5-tuple lookup in a typical
Layer 3 IPv4 switch reference application. The Ayama 20000 NSE C-model
ships as part of Cypress's Cynapse(TM) Software Platform that includes
table managers, device drivers, reference applications and
diagnostics.
Cypress Semiconductor, as a member of the Intel Communication
Alliance (ICA), recently announced support for the Intel PICMG3.x
AdvancedTCA(TM) development environment. Cypress successfully
demonstrated interoperability with Intel IXP2xxx NPUs at the Intel
Development Forum 2003 and also at the Network Processor Conference --
West 2003 both held in San Jose, California.
For more information on the Intel Communications Alliance, please
visit www.intel.com/go/ica.
Cypress's Network Search Engines
The Ayama 10000 family of NSEs maintains the Cypress lead in the
commercial TCAM market by extending the density and speed of the
NSE70000 family: density options of 4-Mbit, 9-Mbit and 18-Mbit with
speeds up to 266 MSPS. In addition, the Ayama 10000 family addresses
system's power and latency concerns with differentiated features such
as Mini-Key(TM) power management and Soft Priority(TM) table
management. Mini-Key power management reduces power by engaging only
the portion of the NSE array that contains entries of interest,
thereby reducing power consumption by as much as 70%. Soft Priority
table management enables dynamic prioritization of entries for longest
prefix match (LPM) in Layer 3 forwarding applications, eliminating the
latency associated with routing table updates.
Building on the Ayama 10000 family, the Ayama 20000 NSE is a
high-performance TCAM-based network search engine that seamlessly
connects to the Network Processing Forum (NPF) approved LA-1
interface-based commercial NPUs. The Ayama 20000 NSE has several key
features such as two LA-1 ports for ingress/egress database sharing,
automatic address generation for associated data, support for aging,
and patent-pending dynamic power management. The Ayama 20000 NSE is
available in 9-Mbit and 18-Mbit densities; at 266-million searches per
second (MSPS) it is the highest-performance LA-1 based NSE in the
market.
In addition to TCAM-based solutions, Cypress is the only vendor to
also offer an Algorithmic SRAM-based forwarding search engine. The
Sahasra(TM) 50000 NSE is a family of algorithmic search engines
optimized for large forwarding tables in applications such as virtual
router forwarding (VRF) and virtual private network (VPNs) that need
greater than one-million table entries. The Sahasra NSE family can
achieve 250 MSPS, at a fraction of the power and cost of existing
TCAM-based search solutions.
Cypress's comprehensive NSE portfolio has been adopted by leading
routers, L2/3 switches, CMTS, DSLAMs and storage area networks
manufacturers.
About Cypress
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY) is Connecting From Last
Mile to First Mile(TM) with high-performance solutions for personal,
network access, enterprise, metro switch and core
communications-system applications. Cypress Connects(TM) using
wireless, wireline, digital and optical transmission standards,
including USB, Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet and DWDM.
Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, Cypress makes
industry-leading physical layer devices, framers and network search
engines, along with a broad portfolio of high-bandwidth memories,
timing technology solutions and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays.
More information about Cypress is accessible online at
www.cypress.com.
Cypress and the Cypress logo are registered trademarks of Cypress
Semiconductor Corporation. Ayama, Sahasra, "Connecting From Last Mile
to First Mile" and "Cypress Connects" are trademarks of Cypress. All
other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Contact:
Cypress Semiconductor Corp.
Karen Suty, 408-545-6906
KLS@cypress.com
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