Central Packet Switches For The Embedded Market from IDT

As with other members of the CPS family, the 80KSW0005 incorporates in-house fourth-generation IDT SerDes and sRIO core switch technology to provide customers with superior flexibility, scalability, performance and power consumption at very competitive costs. The new device supports sRIO packet switching (including unicast, multicast and optional broadcast) from any of its 10 input ports to any of its 10 output ports and is pin-to-pin compatible with the existing IDT PPS family of devices, allowing customers the flexibility to upgrade their next-generation systems to the more powerful pre-processing solution with no impact on hardware or board design.

Leveraging the Serial RapidIO, JTAG and I2C interconnect standards, the IDT CPS family specifically addresses such markets as wireless and wireline, imaging, medical, military, IPTV, and other high-end communications markets and embedded applications. Following the IDT initiative to provide unparalleled performance in power efficient configurations, the CPS family offers IDT customers a best-in-class solution through fastest possible time-to-market. Supporting software solutions provided for the CPS and PPS switch families include an IDT-developed power calculator that allows customers to estimate power usage in various usage profiles. Customers can use this calculator to adjust device options to achieve maximum power savings.

Based upon proven IDT pre-processing technology, the CPS family includes an advanced feature set developed in conjunction with IDT customers to meet their specific interconnect needs. This feature set is built into the IDT solution to benefit customers when they are in the design phase, but also enables critical diagnostics during early stages of testing and continues to be useful in the end-application. The devices include a ‘loopback mode’, which enables customers the added flexibility to work with the physical layer of the IDT device and quickly identify the source of any performance bottlenecks. Additionally enhanced functions provide ‘kill’ and ‘trace/mirror’ capabilities that enable an added layer of security that is often critical in embedded applications.

As a companion to the IDT CPS family, IDT also offers a proprietary graphical user interface (GUI) that is available to customers at no extra charge. The GUI allows IDT customers to configure and control every feature and function, as well as acting as a diagnostic tool for system troubleshooting during board bring up. The CPS GUI ultimately provides customers with significantly faster time-to-market and best-in-class performance while allowing them to fine tune their systems for optimal throughput and best possible signal integrity. The GUI is compatible with any PC running the Windows operating system through a USB connection off the PC to an I2C and/or JTAG port on the board.

The CPS solutions are supported by ATCA- and MicroTCA-compatible dedicated development platforms together with a comprehensive range of software development tools, such as GUI, API, drivers and third-party tools. Each kit supports all other IDT pre-processing solutions and sRIO-enabled solutions, such as the 10G Serial Buffer and CPRI FICs, and enables the designer to tune system and component configurations to meet system requirements. Moreover, to ensure that each system design is optimised for production and meets its time to market objectives, IDT provides customers with extensive collaborative support, including system modelling and signal integrity analyses, and schematic and layout review services.