Microsemi Corporation announced two additions to its recently announced lineup of Adaptec Smart Storage 12Gbps SAS/SATA adapters: the SmartRAID 3162-8i and SmartRAID 3162-8i /e. The SmartRAID 3162-8i offers an industry-leading level of integration by offering an integrated super capacitor directly on the adapter to support write cache data protection. The SmartRAID 3162-8i /e introduces the […]
Data centers
On-demand cloud access for xilinx FPGA, SoC developers
Plunify, announced availability of Plunify InTime through the Plunify Cloud platform for on-demand development, optimization, testing and deployment of Xilinx field programmable gate array (FPGA) designs in the cloud using Vivado Design Suite, HLx Edition. “Our collaboration with Plunify enables FPGA designers to leverage the flexibility and scalability of the cloud to compile designs in Vivado […]
Clocks/oscillators meet stringent 56G SerDes phase-jitter requirements
Silicon Labs has expanded its timing portfolio to meet the high-performance clocking requirements of 56G PAM-4 SerDes and emerging 112G serial applications. With this portfolio expansion, Silicon Labs is the only timing supplier to offer a comprehensive selection of clock generators, jitter attenuating clocks, voltage-controlled crystal oscillators (VCXOs) and XOs for 100/200/400/600G designs that satisfy sub-100 […]
Processor combines CPUs, GP-GPUs, and AI chips on one platform
Silicon Valley startup Tachyum Inc., which is backed by IPM Growth, today unveiled its new processor family – codenamed “Prodigy” – that combines the advantages of CPUs with GP-GPUs, and specialized AI chips in a single universal processor platform with ten times the processing power per watt capable of running the world’s most complex compute […]
Emulation platform handles up to 1.25 billion gates for data center designs
Mentor, a Siemens business, today introduced the Veloce® StratoT, which expands the footprint choices and configuration options available from its Veloce Strato™ emulation platform family. The Veloce Strato platform is a third-generation, data-center friendly emulation platform, and the only emulation platform on the market with full scalability across both software and hardware. In addition, the […]
PCIe Gen 4 development platform helps develop switches with up to 48 ports and 48 NTBs
Microsemi Corporation announced the availability of its Switchtec PCIe Gen 4 development platform. Microsemi’s new development platform enables customers to immediately begin PCIe Gen 4 system hardware designs based on the company’s PCIe Gen 4 switch and develop firmware using its Switchtec software development kit (SDK). PCIe Gen 4 represents an exciting new advancement in input/output […]
Chipsets speed development of data center SSD projects
Marvell today announced that it is launching innovative NVM Express (NVMe)-based chipset solutions that will accelerate the time to market for application-optimized data center SSD implementations. These new, highly-versatile building blocks can optimally address current and emerging workload storage requirements, spanning capacity, latency, performance, power and cost, to enable tailored SSD solutions for specific cloud and […]
Directly modulated laser diodes handle 25 Gbps rates for 4.9G and 5G LTE base stations
Renesas Electronics Corporation today announced the RV2X6376A Series of directly modulated laser (DML) diodes. The DML diodes deliver 25 Gbps x four wavelengths as the light source in 100 Gbps optical transceivers that enable high-speed communications inside 4.9G and 5G LTE base stations, and between data center routers and servers. The RV2X6376A Series are the […]
First 16-port 50GbE PHY transceiver
Marvell announced the launch of the 88X7120 50GbE PHY transceiver, the latest offering in its Alaska C family of high-speed Ethernet physical layer (PHY) transceivers, designed to improve bandwidth and performance in the data center. The new transceiver is purpose-built to address the transition in hyperscale data centers from 25GbE (Gigabit Ethernet) and 100GbE to 50GbE, 200GbE and […]
RZ/N1 evaluation kit targets remote IO, comms, networked drive designs
Ethernet-based industrial network development requires system manufacturers to select external components, contact various software providers to select the proper protocol stack, and set up the development environment. All these steps make it difficult for system manufacturers to quick start Ethernet-based industry network developments, delaying time-to-market of their application. The new RZ/N1L Solution Kit announced by […]
