Focus EDL Signs IP House MorethanIP

1st March 2008

Focus EDL

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Focus EDL, the leading electronic components distributor specializing in providing the communications and high-performance datacoms industries with a broad range of products from the United States, Asia and Europe, announces that it signed MorethanIP, the design house recognised for its ability to support FPGA devices from leading vendors including Altera and Xilinx.

MorethanIP is particularly known for its Ethernet medium access control (MAC) IP core that supports the IEEE 1588 standard for precision clock synchronisation.

“As a result, those of our customers interested in developing next generation communications system designs based on Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, high speed system interfaces such as POS-PHY L3/L4 and high speed memory controllers and interfaces for industry standard processors, can get access to the best design talent and IP resource available within this market sector.” Says Focus EDL’s Managing Director Geoff Philpot.

This latest agreement gives Focus EDL and its customers the ability to work alongside MorethanIP’s development teams on projects involving high speed communications, serial backplane and embedded systems technologies. This can include the design, specification and implementation of standard products, system architectures and customer-specific solutions The agreement, which covers the UK and Ireland, has immediate effect.

“We are really pleased to be partnering with MorethanIP.” says Geoff Philpot. “The company’s unmatched design capability and its IP resource will allow us to help our customers get their next generation products to market on time and within budget ”