FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Roland Samuelson
Aurora VLSI, Inc.
+1 (408) 565-9650
rolands@auroravlsi.com
Aurora VLSI and
Stargate Solutions Announce Delivery of Stargate Gigabit Ethernet MAC Core
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 20, 2001 – Aurora VLSI, Inc.and
Stargate Solutions, Inc. today announced commercial delivery of its 10/100/1000
Gigabit Ethernet MAC semiconductor intellectual property product. The Stargate
Gigabit MAC is the follow-on product to their highly successful 10/100 Ethernet
MAC core, which has been used in System-on-a-Chip (SOC) designs since September,
1998.
The Stargate SSN8800, part
of the company's CoreNet product family, is shipping now and has been optimized
for Gigabit Ethernet applications, according to Ram Jayam, Stargate president
and CEO. "This next-generation device gives our Ethernet customers the best
mix of value, performance, and support in the IP industry," Jayam said.
“Having the Stargate
Gigabit MAC core readily available to SOC designers will enable the movement of
high speed broadband capabilities into low cost, high volume commercial and
consumer applications,” said Joan Pendleton, President and Co-Founder of
Aurora VLSI.
Range
of Features
The SSN8800 is a high-performance IEEE802.3z-compliant MAC for Gigabit Ethernet
applications such as NICs, clusters, and switches. The fully synthesizable core
has a range of features to ease implementation and heighten performance:
IEEE 802.3z Compliant
Carrier Extension Support
Packet Bursting Support
Full-Duplex Capable
GMII Interface to PHY
RMON, SNMP, MIP Capable
Auto CRC Generation
Automatic Retries
Signal Detect Input Capable
Fully Synchronous Design
Simple Application Interface
Synthesis Scripts Provided
The
SSN8800 is verified in FPGA, and the initial foundry process is the UMC
0.18-micro.
Licensing
and support for the Stargate Gigabit MAC core is provided by Aurora VLSI.
This product ships in Verilog source format and includes a comprehensive
test-bench environment and test suit.
About Stargate
Stargate Solutions Inc. is a private company based in San Jose, Calif. It was
founded in 1997 to create and deliver high-performance IP for networking,
communications, and consumer electronics applications. Today the company offers
through Aurora VLSI some of the industry's most sought-after cores including
10/100/1000 Ethernet MAC (Gigabit MAC), 10/100 Ethernet MAC, Utopia 2/3, PCI,
USB, IEEE 1394 (Firewire), and SDRAM controllers. Stargate is a member of Altera
Corporation's (NASDAQ: ALTR-news) Altera Megafunction Partner Program, and
participates in numerous networking industry standards organizations.
About Aurora VLSI
Aurora VLSI, Inc. is a private company based in Santa Clara, Calif.
It was founded in 1998 to create and provide high performance and low
power Java™ semiconductor intellectual property (IP) for mobile devices,
internet appliances, set-top-boxes and other communications and consumer
applications. Aurora VLSI currently
offers two Java coprocessors:
Espresso – a dual pipeline super scalar design for
very high Java performance applications, and
DeCaf
– a single scalar design for high performance, low power Java applications.
Aurora
VLSI, Inc. is the World Wide reseller and support organization for all of
Stargate Solutions’ peripheral IP cores for SOC applications.
The company is located at 4677 Old Ironsides Drive, Santa Clara, Calif.,
95054, phone: (408) 565-9650, fax: (408) 565-9654, www.auroravlsi.com.
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